The Country of Marriage: Stories

The Country of Marriage: Stories - Paperback

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The Country of Marriage: Stories - Paperback

The Country of Marriage: Stories - Paperback

by Anthony Giardina
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by Anthony Giardina (Author)

With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America.

The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence. Giardina looks at our relationships with an eye capable of clinical precision but never devoid of compassion, and gives voice to the emotions that lie unexplored and unexpressed beneath their seemingly placid surface.

In "Days with Cecilia," a highly articulate shop teacher reveals by attrition the sexual secret of his marriage. In "The Lake," a young fireman confronts his complicity in the murder of his best friend's wife. And in "The Films of Richard Egan," the aborted career of an almost-was film star finds its echo in a suburban boy's life.

These are emotional landscapes at once familiar and unsettling, with characters who are instantly recognizable but endlessly surprising. Brilliantly observed and masterfully told, The Country of Marriage is an unforgettable montage of lives of dwindling promise, of stubborn hope, of emotional atrophy, and of the courage to take root in the indifferent soil of modern existence.

"Anthony Giardina has an exquisite sense of the nuances of gesture and voice, the clamor of things unsaid."--The New York Times Book Review

Author Biography

The author of five novels and a short-story collection, Anthony Giardina has had two plays produced to critical acclaim at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, the Manhattan Theatre Club, Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. He has written for Harper's, Esquire, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine.

Number of Pages: 224
Dimensions: 0.52 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: August 08, 1998
ISBN9780812992359
Author Anthony Giardina
PublisherRandom House
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 1998
LanguageENG- English
Pages224
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Anthony Giardina has written six novels, including White Guys and Norumbega Park, as well as the short-story collection The Country of Marriage. His plays, including The City of Conversation and Dan Cody's Yacht, have been presented at Lincoln Center and the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, and have been widely performed across the United States. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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