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      Marry Me

      by John Updike
      Published
      Oct 1976
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      304
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      Marry Me is subtitled "A Romance" because, in the author's words, "people don't act like that anymore." The time is 1962, and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood, Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married, though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on, and as their spouses react, in a tentative late-summer atmosphere of almost-last chances. For this is, as Jerry observes, "the twilight of the old morality, and there's just enough to torment us, and not enough to hold us in."

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      General Fiction

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      Comedy / Humor

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      Sep 1996 Ballantine ISBN13 9780449912157 ISBN10 0449912159
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      Oct 1978 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140046434 ISBN10 0140046437
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      Apr 1981 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449233696 ISBN10 0449233693
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      Apr 1983 Fawcett ISBN13 9780449203613 ISBN10 0449203611
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      Feb 2006 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780141023632 ISBN10 0141023635
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      First Edition Oct 1976 Knopf ISBN13 9780394408569 ISBN10 039440856X
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      Sep 2012 Random House ISBN13 9780679645931 ISBN10 0679645934
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