Matrimony (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307277169)

It's the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives at Graymont College in New England. Here he meets Carter Heinz, with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship, and beautiful Mia Mendelsohn, with whom he falls in love. Spurred on by a family tragedy, Julian and Mia's love affair will carry them to graduation and beyond, taking them through several college towns, over the next fifteen years. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is a stunning novel of love and friendship, money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It is a richly detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone-to do it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age.

Author: Joshua Henkin
ISBN-10: 030727716X
ISBN-13: 9780307277169
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2008
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 09/28/2008 pg. 32