Determined to preserve their dreams and their marriage, Ted and Hallie Bennett weather the storms of society as it sweeps from the fifties, through the turbulent sixties and seventies, to the eighties. 20,000 first printing.
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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Wed in the innocent early '60s, Hallie and Ted Bennett experience the vicissitudes of married life in a trite novel whose central question is whether their love will endure as they both mature. Beginning with an insipid scene of wedding-night jitters, Greber ( Mendocino ) early on sledgehammers her message that marriage takes work. She traces the Bennetts' lives over three decades, from Boston to Silicon Valley and across the changing face of American culture. The social and sexual storms of the '60s and '70s and the materialism of the go-go '80s test the couple's commitment, which seems prehistoric to their friends. Hallie's social conscience allows the introduction of such topics as the Vietnam War, feminism and AIDS but ruminating on wedded bliss--or its lack--remains her principal occupation: "The whole business was infinitely more complex than she'd suspected." When Hallie gets her law degree, her specialty is, of course, divorce. Flaws and compromise may be as good as marriage gets, but readers expect more from a book.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
The author of Mendocino ( LJ 3/1/88) follows Ted and Hallie Bennett through 40 years of marriage, during which both partners make compromises as they raise children, deal with their separate careers, and relocate across the country. When a major midlife crisis prompts Ted to have a brief affair, the couple consider divorce. They ultimately affirm their strong commitment to the marriage, but this positive, hopeful conclusion is achieved only after much serious soul-searching. The characters come alive in this fast-paced modern novel, which can be compared in some ways to Marilyn French's The Women's Room ( LJ 11/15/77); the scope, realistic subject matter, and themes are similar, but Greber writes without French's harsh feminist tone. The fortysomething crowd will see both positive and negative aspects of their lives portrayed in this emotional novel. For popular fiction collections with a large female clientele.
- April L. Judge, Thousand Oaks Lib., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- April L. Judge, Thousand Oaks Lib., Cal.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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