2000, ISBN: 9780865475892

'Marriage is like a rain forest,' Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. 'The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. … Plus…

'Marriage is like a rain forest,' Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. 'The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. The understory of a marriage is the place where . . . we struggle, fight, and conceive. It's the place where compost is made, where anything can grow, including forgiveness.' Told in the authors' alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory of a marriage. Childhood acquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their twenties and wed. they 'promise each other nothing' and get more than they'd bargained for: alcoholism, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty. tumult gives way to sobriety, parenthood, and meaningful work, but a yearning remains. In a quest to root themselves in the larger world, they embark on a mission to dig water wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need. Yet even this is part of the story-the visible, overarching canopy-of the marriage. The understory-and the triumph of this haunting book, which is neither sentimental nor cynical-is its portrayal of the eddying of passion through the institution that enshrines but cannot contain it. A soulful and unsparing portrait of the forces that threaten-and sustain-a relationship over time. Buch (fremdspr.) Dennis Covington#Vicki Covington Taschenbuch, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 08.05.2000, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2000<

ISBN: 9780865475892

'Marriage is like a rain forest,' Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. 'The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. … Plus…

'Marriage is like a rain forest,' Vicki Covington writes in Cleaving. 'The story of a marriage contains all that grows in the canopy, all that is visible from an aerial, or public, view. The understory of a marriage is the place where . . . we struggle, fight, and conceive. It's the place where compost is made, where anything can grow, including forgiveness.' Told in the authors' alternating voices, Cleaving is both the story and the understory of a marriage. Childhood acquaintances, Vicki and Dennis meet again in their twenties and wed. they 'promise each other nothing' and get more than they'd bargained for: alcoholism, infidelity, infertility, uncertainty. tumult gives way to sobriety, parenthood, and meaningful work, but a yearning remains. In a quest to root themselves in the larger world, they embark on a mission to dig water wells in Central America, assuaging a spiritual thirst by addressing a practical need. Yet even this is part of the story-the visible, overarching canopy-of the marriage. The understory-and the triumph of this haunting book, which is neither sentimental nor cynical-is its portrayal of the eddying of passion through the institution that enshrines but cannot contain it. A soulful and unsparing portrait of the forces that threaten-and sustain-a relationship over time. Bücher > Fremdsprachige Bücher > Englische Bücher 203 x 127 x 13 mm , Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL<

2000, ISBN: 086547589X

[EAN: 9780865475892], New book, [PU: North Point Press], New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!, Books