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Thursday, September 18 2008, 8:00pm - 9:30pm |
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Matrimony
Starting at the height of the Reagan
era and ending in the new millennium, MATRIMONY is about love
and friendship, about money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith.
It asks what happens to a marriage when it is confronted by betrayal
and the specter of mortality. In its emotional honesty, its luminous
prose, its generosity and wry wit, MATRIMONY is a beautifully
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.
Joshua Henkin is the author of the novel
Swimming Across the Hudson, which was selected by the as a notable book of the year; his short stories, essays,
and reviews have appeared in many journals and newspapers. Among other
honors, he is the recipient of the James Fellowship for the Novel, the
Hopwood Award, and the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. He lives with his
family in Brooklyn, New York, and teaches in the creative writing programs
at Sarah Lawrence College and Brooklyn College, and at the Unterberg
Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
Los Angeles
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