A Marriage Made at Woodstock

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Cathie Pelletier is back with a hilarious, touching, and insightful novel about the Woodstock generation. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, Fred and Lorraine Stone, a forty-something couple who met and fell in love at the famous musical festival in upstate New York, have evolved and grown - but not in the same direction. Fred has become Frederick Stone, Computer Accountant and Consultant, while his wife, Lorraine, has become Chandra - that's Sanskrit for changeable - Stone, animal rights activist and teacher of ...
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Cathie Pelletier is back with a hilarious, touching, and insightful novel about the Woodstock generation. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, Fred and Lorraine Stone, a forty-something couple who met and fell in love at the famous musical festival in upstate New York, have evolved and grown - but not in the same direction. Fred has become Frederick Stone, Computer Accountant and Consultant, while his wife, Lorraine, has become Chandra - that's Sanskrit for changeable - Stone, animal rights activist and teacher of seminars in human psychology. Now that the nineties are the sixties upside down, can this marriage survive? Cathie Pelletier has established herself as one of the most bitingly funny and brilliantly original observers of the American landscape and spirit. Now, with her incisive wit and natural storytelling powers at their peak, Pelletier makes us look hard - and laugh even harder - at how strange life has become for children of the sixties. In A Marriage Made at Woodstock, she takes us to Portland, Maine, and into the lives of her most appealing and surprising characters to date.

The break-out book for an acclaimed novelist and winner of the New England Booksellers Award. Lorraine and Fred Stone married at Woodstock, but 25 years later, their marriage is in trouble. Can two children of the Woodstock Generation survive in the New Age?

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
In a novel that will surely bring her new fans, Pelletier ( The Bubble Reputation ) takes scathing aim at the vanities of older baby boomers, reading a generation's identity into imported coffee beans and therapy seminars. Frederick Stone and Chandra Kimball met at Woodstock, married soon after and consider that famous concert the seminal influence on their lives. All around them they see evidence that the graying members of their generation have sold out, but surely this can't have happened to them. True, Frederick's an accountant, but he specializes in helping small businesses and, besides, he's a vegetarian. Chandra, meanwhile, is an animal-rights activist and sometime therapist. Suddenly, Chandra moves out, claiming that Frederick no longer pays attention to her or anything she does. Distraught, Frederick calls forth his memories of Woodstock, hoping that these reflections of his marriage's beginning can help him discover what went wrong. Pelletier turns a keen satirical eye on the former hippies and other countercultural residents of Portland, Maine, and her portrait of Frederick's divorced brother, a Robert Bly-quoting veterinarian who dates women half his age, is especially sharp and funny. She is less successful at capturing the dynamics of a marriage on the rocks; for all of Frederick's musings on Chandra, the texture of their shared existence--and of its dissolution--never quite comes clear. But Pelletier keeps a straight face while chronicling the antics of grown children in this enjoyable social comedy of the '90s whose extend 30 years deep. (July)
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Pelletier, author of The Bubble Reputation (LJ 4/1/93) and other contemporary novels set in Maine, here tells the story of Freddy and Lorraine Stone, who fell in love at the Woodstock music festival. Now, two decades later, Fred (a former English major) is an uptight workaholic accountant who alphabetizes the family's shopping list, charts his graying hair on his computer, and makes sure he gets to work earlier than his neighbor. Lorraine, who has metamorphosed into Chandra, gets her doctorate in psychology and spends her time fighting the good fight for animal rights and the environment, facilitating classes in ``The Psychology of Names,'' and leading protest marches. Should this marriage be saved? In this always entertaining, often laugh-aloud account of the painful dissolution of a longtime relationship, Pelletier has produced an immensely satisfying novel that echoes the lives of many fortysomething readers. An excellent purchase for public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/1/94.]-Nancy Pearl, Washington Ctr. for the Book, Seattle
Mary Ellen Quinn
Chandra and Frederick Stone met at the Woodstock festival, got married, and have been living in Portland, Maine, for over 20 years. Chandra, a psychologist, has clung to many of her Woodstock-era values. She conducts New Age seminars on topics like the psychology of names and is active in the animal rights movement. Frederick, meanwhile, has turned from a poetry-quoting English major into an accountant, with his own home-based accountancy business. He has discovered computers, and so engrossed is he in things like dialing up "Consumer Reports" that he pays little attention to Chandra's comings and goings. Her announcement that she is leaving him throws him into a tailspin. Following her departure, he tries to spy on her; spends evenings with his divorced brother Herb at the China Boat, where Herb goes to pick up dates; has a fling that turns scary with Doris Bowen, wife of the richest man in town; neglects his clients and nearly loses his business. Pelletier has written a very funny novel, but underneath all the humor with which she infuses Frederick's predicament is a deeper meaning. This is a book about major midlife transitions, not just a comedy about divorce.
Anndee Hochman
"A tender, funny, comming-of-middle-age novel...delicious and defizzy, bright and uncomplicted, with enough tartness to cut the sweet, enough warmth to balance its contemporary cool." -- The Philadelphia Enquirier
Darryl Roorbach
"A Marriage Made at Woodstock is funny indeed. But it...reaches higher than jokes....Pelletier has asked some hard questions and seen the sadness of the generation, always with a sharp wit and a fine sardonic edge." -- New York Newsday
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780517597965
  • Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 5/15/1994
  • Edition description: 1st ed
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 276
  • Product dimensions: 6.32 (w) x 9.23 (h) x 1.02 (d)

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