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Cultural critic Roiphe delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages à la mode"--Each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways: H.G. and Jane Wells; Katherine Mansfield; Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin; Vanessa and Clive Bell; and Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, herself no stranger to marital particularities, who sustained a brilliant running commentary on the most intimate details of those around her. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages, and how it was resolved--or not. In these portraits, Roiphe evokes "the fluctuations and shifts in attraction, the mysteries of lasting affection, the endurance and changes in love, and the role of friendship in marriage."--publisher description.
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Man-woman relationships, Relations with men, English Authors, Marriage, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, English Women authors, Biography, Relations with women, Bloomsbury group, Litterateurs, Authors' spouses, Marriage, great britain, Authors, biography, London (england), social life and customs, Women authors, Authors, english, Open marriage, Sexual behavior, Groupe de Bloomsbury, Gens de lettres, Écrivains, Conjoints, Mariage ouvert, SexualitéTimes
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Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939
2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Marriages in Literary London, 1910 -1939
2009, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Uncommon arrangements: seven portraits of married life in London literary circles 1919-1939
2008, Virago
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Uncommon Arrangements
2007, Random House Publishing Group
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Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles 1910-1939
June 26, 2007, The Dial Press
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0385339372 9780385339377
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Uncommon arrangements: seven portraits of married life in London literary circles, 1910-1939
2007, Dial Press
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Katie Roiphe's stimulating work has made her one of the most talked about cultural critics of her generation. Now this bracing young writer delves deeply into one of the most layered of subjects: marriage. Drawn in part from the private memoirs, personal correspondence, and long-forgotten journals of the British literary community from 1910 to the Second World War, here are seven "marriages a la mode"--each rising to the challenge of intimate relations in more or less creative ways. Jane Wells, the wife of H.G., remained his rock, despite his decade-long relationship with Rebecca West (among others). Katherine Mansfield had an irresponsible, childlike romance with her husband, John Middleton Murry, that collapsed under the strain of real-life problems. Vera Brittain and George Gordon Catlin spent years in a "semidetached" marriage (he in America, she in England). Vanessa Bell maintained a complicated harmony with the painter Duncan Grant, whom she loved, and her husband, Clive. And her sister Virginia Woolf, herself no stranger to marital particularities, sustained a brilliant running commentary on the most intimate details of those around her. Every chapter revolves around a crisis that occurred in each of these marriages--as serious as life-threatening illness or as seemingly innocuous as a slightly tipsy dinner table conversation--and how it was resolved...or not resolved. In these portraits, Roiphe brilliantly evokes what are, as she says, "the fluctuations and shifts in attraction, the mysteries of lasting affection, the endurance and changes in love, and the role of friendship in marriage." The deeper mysteries at stake in all relationships.From the Hardcover edition.
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