This is Jane Austen updated, a sparkling novel of love, marriage, and manners.
Rachel Pastan's novel is pure pleasure-where "the mating habits of the subspecies we might call Very Intelligent women are examined by a writer whose eye is sharp, whose wit is keen, and whose heart is open to the possibilities that love offers" (Ann Packer). The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is single-mindedly determined to see them all happily married.
The book opens at a Sunday brunch where Dr. Rubin, mother and obstetrician, is scheming to introduce her eldest daughter, Alice, to a doctor who is almost too good to be true. But why hasn't Alice, who is beautiful and smart (as well as extremely nice), been able to find a husband on her own? Is her sister Isabel, the real heroine of the story, genuinely happy in her marriage, and, if so, why won't her husband cooperate with her attempts to get pregnant? And is Tina, the youngest of the sisters, as shallow as she seems, or...
Reminiscent of the work of Laurie Colwin, This Side of Married is a brilliant, ironic, domestic comedy of manners. Full of surprises, yet filled with feeling, This Side of Married is witty, intelligent, and utterly delicious.
This is Jane Austen updated, a sparkling novel of love, marriage, and manners.
Rachel Pastan's novel is pure pleasure-where "the mating habits of the subspecies we might call Very Intelligent women are examined by a writer whose eye is sharp, whose wit is keen, and whose heart is open to the possibilities that love offers" (Ann Packer). The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose well-meaning but domineering mother is single-mindedly determined to see them all happily married.
The book opens at a Sunday brunch where Dr. Rubin, mother and obstetrician, is scheming to introduce her eldest daughter, Alice, to a doctor who is almost too good to be true. But why hasn't Alice, who is beautiful and smart (as well as extremely nice), been able to find a husband on her own? Is her sister Isabel, the real heroine of the story, genuinely happy in her marriage, and, if so, why won't her husband cooperate with her attempts to get pregnant? And is Tina, the youngest of the sisters, as shallow as she seems, or...
Reminiscent of the work of Laurie Colwin, This Side of Married is a brilliant, ironic, domestic comedy of manners. Full of surprises, yet filled with feeling, This Side of Married is witty, intelligent, and utterly delicious.
This Side of Married
This Side of Married
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| ISBN-13: | 9780786132751 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/09/2004 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |