
A Happy Marriage
#443 of 8,085 books · #216 in Fiction
Won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (2009).
A Happy Marriage is both intimate and expansive: It is the story of Enrique Sabas and his wife, Margaret, a novel that alternates between the romantic misadventures of the first weeks of their courtship and the final months of Margaret's life as she says good-bye to her family, friends, and children -- and to Enrique. Spanning thirty years, this achingly honest story is about what it means for two people to spend a lifetime together -- and what makes a happy marriage.
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- ISBN-13
- 9781439109816
- Genre
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for FictionWonMajor(2009)
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