![]() ![]() On marriage: “But there is a natural hostility between the married and the unmarried. ![]() “The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life’s major mysteries.” The author tells us in an aside that few authors write about the experience of being in love and that is mainly what the story is about. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.” It’s about falling in love with the emphasis on “falling.” It happens to this 58-year-old man instantaneously over dinner one night with a woman barely 20 years old a daughter of long-time friends of his. On love: Iris Murdoch made this famous quote: “Every artist is an unhappy lover. I’d say there are three main themes: love – the experience of falling in love and being in love the pros and cons of marriage, and art. And just like The Sea, we have a murder, an attempted murder and a suicide. These include his ex- and he assumes she wants to get back with him, which may or may not be true. ![]() He has always ‘used’ women and treated them callously old flames return making theatrical appearances at his door at inopportune times. The similarities with The Sea: we have a just-retired divorced man who has rented an ocean-front cottage. For fans of the author’s The Sea, The Sea, here’s a great book that has a similar tone and structure. ![]()
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