bookofjoe (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Page one: .................... We think we know the ones we love. Our husbands, our wives. We know them — we are them, sometimes; when separated at a party we find ourselves voicing their opinions, their taste in food or books,...
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
The blogosphere jury is decidedly split when it comes to Andrew Sean Greer's The Story of a Marriage. Mark Thwaite (he of Ready Steady Book and The Book Depository ) has lambasted it as 'a tissue of cliches and clunky metaphors: it looks beautiful and accomplished (and it is exquisitely paced and sometimes wonderfully written) but is set up merely to "push your buttons"' Asylum's John Self concured...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Andrew Sean Greer's new novel, The Story of a Marriage, plays with the reader's assumptions, testing what we see in our mind's eye
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
I didn’t intend to read Andrew Sean Greer’s novel The Story of a Marriage until I read a hat trick of rave reviews from trusted bloggers dovegreyreader , Lizzy Siddal and Kirsty . They loved it to a man (that is, woman), and I decided I had to see what all the fuss was about. Then I saw Mark Thwaite on ReadySteadyBook take a somewhat different line - “mawkish tapestry of cliché,” was it? - and there’s...
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Youngish author profiled in the Guardian. But what does Greer know of this time and those people’s struggles? He was born in 1970 in Washington DC to two scientists. “They both told me the 50s were dreadful.” He has also clearly spent a lot of time reading up on the era, the fraught period before the [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Praised for his 'perfumed, dandified style', Andrew Sean Greer is one of America's finest young writers. He tells Stuart Jeffries about the family secret that inspired his latest novel, The Story of a Marriage
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
THE STORY OF A MARRIAGE Andrew Sean Greer Faber & Faber, £12.99
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Books: Andrew Sean Greer looks at the way people hide behind public versions of themselves, the way a married couple will silently collaborate in living a lie and the unfathomable nature of love.
ReadySteadyBlog (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
My review of Andrew Sean Greer 's highly-praised, certainly proficient, but in fact mawkish tapestry of cliché, The Story of a Marriage , can be read in the Independent newspaper today. My review begins: "It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs." So begins Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar , set in 1953 at the height of McCarthyite anti-communism. This is also the year...
kottke (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
While we're on the topic of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Andrew Sean Greer wrote a book with a similar premise published in 2004 called The Confessions of Max Tivoli . It was based in part on the same Fitzgerald story as Fincher's film. Mr. Greer is candid about the precedents: F. Scott Fitzgerald told a related story in "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," and that in turn was inspired...
Left In SF (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
My old friend and literary rock star Andrew Sean Greer reads from his new book, The Story of a Marriage, this Thursday at the Main Library at 6:30. His previous novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was one of the first books chosen as part of the SF Reads program. Worth going to.
Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
The haunting questions in Andrew Sean Greer's exquisite new novel resonate with us all: "What do you want from life? Could you even say?" We might be able to articulate a general idea -- say, that reliable standby "I want to be happy."
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
For those in the Los Angeles area, I want to remind you that tonight at the downtown public library, Mark Sarvas is in conversation with Andrew Sean Greer. Drop everything! I mean it.
The Elegant Variation (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Please join me tomorrow evening at the Los Angeles Public Library, where I will be participating in the ALOUD series, which presents Andrew Sean Greer in conversation with you-know-who. We'll be talking mostly about his wonderful new novel, The Story...
Other Stories (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
For the first time since the 5th of May, I have finally finished a book! What a shame that this constitutes news in itself at the moment, but what is a girl to do? Anyway, last night I stayed up...
