The Edge of Marriage: Stories
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Kaplan, Hester, PUBLISHER: University ong>ofong> Georgia Press, In nine stories ong>ofong> tension-filled choices, difficult awakenings, and ironic twists, characters in The Edge ong>ofong> Marriage ong>rideong> the wavering line between commitments and promises. Full ong>ofong> conflict, betrayal, illness, ong>manong>ipulation, and indecision, these stories portray men and women on the brink ong>ofong> defeat and drastic change. In "Claude Comes and Goes" a husband confesses his sympathy and affection for his wife's dying former lover. "The Spiral" captures the crippling effects ong>ofong> miscommunication and unresolved grief. In "Dyaesthesia" a wife and mother grapples with her feelings about her marriage and her husband after he is maimed in an accident. Characters trapped in troubled relationships and on the edge ong>ofong> society walk along Hester Kaplan's "edge": an out-ong>ofong>-wedlock child, a grown victim ong>ofong> child abuse, the male lover ong>ofong> a married ong>manong> with AIDS. The title stoW confronts the complexity ong>ofong> friendship, love, and marriage, as a husband faces his wife's emotional breakdown and his own surfacing resentments. This sometimes startling, frequently poignant collection is illuminated by keen insight and tempered with somber hope.