{"product_id":"married-love-and-other-stories-9780062135643","title":"Married Love: And Other Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this brilliant collection, Tessa Hadley showcases beautifully her formidable talent for writing domestic fiction that rises about the genre to become literary art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Filled with exquisitely calibrated gradations and expressions of class, conducted with symphonic intensity and complexity.... Extraordinarily well-made.\"--\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMarried Love\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful collection of short fiction from one of today's most accomplished storytellers. These tales showcase the qualities for which Tessa Hadley has long been praised: her humor, warmth, and psychological acuity; her powerful, precise, and emotionally dense prose; her unflinching examinations of family relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere are stories that range widely across generations and classes, exploring the private and public lives of unforgettable characters: a young girl who haunts the edges of her parents' party; a wife released by the sudden death of her film-director husband; an eighteen-year-old who insists on marrying her music professor, only to find herself shut out from his secrets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHadley evokes worlds that expand in the imagination far beyond the pages, capturing domestic dramas, generational sagas, wrenching love affairs and epiphanies, and distilling them to remarkable effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHadley, Tessa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eTessa Hadley is the author of six highly acclaimed novels, including \u003cem\u003eClever Girl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Past, \u003c\/em\u003eas well as three short story collections, most recently \u003cem\u003eBad Dreams and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, which won the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Her stories appear regularly in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e; in 2016 she was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize and the Hawthornden Prize. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50502982861074,"sku":"9780062135643","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d186ddde-6013-4f73-937c-5f88ae899396.jpg?v=1730780041","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/married-love-and-other-stories-9780062135643","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}