This Side of Married

Name: This Side of Married
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Rachel Pastan
ISBN: 9781455104406

Author: Rachel Pastan

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/26/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

The Rubin daughters are three eligible sisters from an affluent suburban Philadelphia family whose wellmeaning but domineering mother is singlemindedly determined to see them all happily married. This is Jane Austen updated, a sparkling novel of love, marriage, and manners.

About Rachel Pastan

Rachel Pastan's novel Alena was named an Editors' Choice in the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of two other novels, Lady of the Snakes and This Side of Married, which was a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. Her short fiction has been published in the Georgia Review, the Threepenny Review, Mademoiselle, Prairie Schooner, and many other places. In 2014 she edited Seven Writers, a chapbook of writing inspired by exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, where she served as editor-at-large for several years and developed the popular blog Miranda. Pastan grew up in suburban Maryland, the daughter of a molecular geneticist and a poet, and attended Harvard College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writers Seminar MFA program. Up until recently, she taught writing at Swarthmore College and now is the editor of the Swathmorean, a small town newspaper.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Evie

This morning (after deciding to DNF the book I was reading 😢) I went to my nearest little free library and swapped it with a short book called This Side of Married by Rachel Pastan. Turns out "This Side Of Married" is a very strange retelling of pride and prejudice in present day with several twists.......more

Goodreads review by Cara

Sometimes it's challenging to find a book that isn't political or educational. This book is just a good read. It's not outstanding, but it's an easy enjoyable book that takes you through the lives of three sisters who don't always get along. I felt like with the youngest sister the story wasn't fini......more

Goodreads review by eRin

How many modern-day Pride and Prejudices can there be? A lot apparently. This one takes place in Philidelphia with an overbearing doctor mother dead set on marrying off her two remaining single daughters and a judge fater who is less-than-involved in their lives. Things fall even further apart for D......more

Goodreads review by Sue

I liked it. Three sisters in Philly. Mother wants them married. One is married, younger sister has an affair with her husband!......more