I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck
I Married You for Happiness, Lily Tuck
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I Married You for Happiness

Author: Lily Tuck

Narrator: Barbara Caruso

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/20/2011


Synopsis

Slender, potent, and utterly engaging, I Married You For Happiness combines marriage, mathematics, and the probability of an afterlife to create Lily Tuck's most affecting and riveting book yet.

“His hand is growing cold, still she holds it” is how this novel that tells the story of a marriage begins. The tale unfolds over a single night as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband, Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Still too shocked to grieve, she lets herself remember the defining moments of their long union, beginning with their meeting in Paris. She is an artist, he a highly accomplished mathematician: a collision of two different worlds that merged to form an intricate and passionate love. As we move through select memories—real and imagined—Tuck reveals the most private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys that defined Nina and Philip's life together.

About Lily Tuck

Lily Tuck is the author of several novels: The Double Life of Liliane; I Married You for Happiness; Interviewing Matisse or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award; The News From Paraguay, winner of the National Book Award; the short story collections The House at Belle Fontaine and Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived; and the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on February 24, 2013

Lily Tuck I Married You for Happiness A Book Review What is it with me lately? I'm so emotional. Like a little girl. How can a small book leave me with a tear in my eye? I'm a grown man. Real men don't cry. From the first sentence: His hand is growing cold; still she holds it. I braced myself. Death in t......more

Goodreads review by M. on December 23, 2017

[URL not allowed] Phillip is dead. By holding his gradually cooling hand, Nina, for one entire night, remembers the defining moments of their long life together as husband and wife. Private intimacies, dark secrets, and overwhelming joys. How to connect with someone, even after......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on July 09, 2013

Early evening, a woman's husband comes home, greets her, goes up to their bedroom and dies. She spends the night by his side, looking back on their happy marriage. That's the plot, such as it is, to author Lily Tuck's "I Married You for Happiness." Philip and Nina are worldly, educated, and well-tra......more

Goodreads review by Brona's Books on September 27, 2017

A quotation from Blaise Pascal acts as epigraph for the story, We never keep to the present. We recall the past; we anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander abou......more