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The Ragged Way People Fall Out of Love

A Novel

Author: Elizabeth Cox   Series: Voices of the South

The dissolution of Molly and Will's marriage is gradual - a casualty of carelessness and neglect. Bewildered, overwhelmed with guilt and their love for their three children, Molly and Will begin to disentangle themselves from each other as the surge of family life continues around them.

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The dissolution of Molly and Will's marriage is gradual - a casualty of carelessness and neglect. Bewildered, overwhelmed with guilt and their love for their three children, Molly and Will begin to disentangle themselves from each other as the surge of family life continues around them.

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Molly Hanner's marriage to William is slowly unraveling, and the pulls of entropy this exerts upon them and their three children painfully instruct Molly in the many ways people barely miss loving each other. But divorce is only a catalyst in Molly's life. Amazed at the weight of her family's hurt and at her isolation within it, Molly, painter and student of astronomy, shifts her gaze outward - to the stars, to the images she paints, to the world around her - looking for an order that will contain the disarray of her own life.

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Critic Reviews

"The dissolution of Molly and Will Hanner's marriage is gradual - a casualty of carelessness and neglect. By the time they look up from their hectic lives to acknowledge how much has gone wrong between them then whole house had the weight of some unspeakable crime.' Bewildered, overwhelmed by guilt and their love for their three children, Molly and Will begin to disentangle themselves from each other while the surge of family life continues around them... This elegiac and meticulously observed family portrait leaves the reader appreciative but also wary; only in art can the mistakes of our lives be measured with such grace and forgiveness, or redeemed through such close attention." - The New Yorker "If you think there's nothing fresh to say about married people who wake up one day and discover they don't want to be married anymore, think again. Better yet read Cox." - Chicago Tribune "A novel of sparkling originality and depth.... With humor and compassion and a great deal of allowance for sadness. Cox charts the changing relationships.... Her imagination, originally, and ability to capture difficult emotions make [it] inspiring." - San Francisco Chronicle

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About the Author

Elizabeth Cox is the author of one story collection and three novels, including Night Talk, winner of the Lillian Smith Award. Born and raised in Chattanooga, she lived in Durham, North Carolina, for almost thirty years and taught at Duke University for seventeen years. She currently lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, with her husband.

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Product Details

Publisher
LSU Press | Louisiana State University Press
Published
31st October 2002
Pages
203
ISBN
9780807128350

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