State of the Union
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Nick Hornby
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, About a Boy and High FidelityNow an Emmy award winning SundanceTV series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O'DowdTom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple's therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life--until a recent incident pushed them to the brink.Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? What if you take it apart to see what's in there, but then you're left with a million pieces?Unfolding in the minutes before their weekly therapy sessions, the ten-chapter conversation that ensues is witty and moving, forcing them to look at their marriage--and, for the first time in a long time, at each other.
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Author
Nick Hornby
Pages
144
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2019-05-07
ISBN
0593087348 9780593087343
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"I really loved the concept of this book, how the characters’ lives unfold for us at a specific increment of time — I wish more books were written this way. We can only ever get a window in to someone else’s relationship, and Nick Hornby does a heck of a job. Both characters are at fault, flawed, and biased, and we get to see a rather objective view of what it is like to realize the end of the road with someone is a matter of where you stop."
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Abigail Spradlin
"Nice quick read for a summer weekend. I laughed out loud at least once every chapter."
Darryl Wright
