Conjugal Bliss: A Comedy of the Marital Arts

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Roger and Zelda were lovers. Best friends. Ardent, fun-loving, passionate, they were intellectual and sexual soul mates, a perfect match. And then they got married. How is it that a little piece of paper and a signature in the courthouse records can make such a difference? What happens when love becomes legal is the wellspring of this bawdy, exuberant, all too recognizably familiar tale of modern marriage. As Roger tells it - and does he ever tell it! - Zelda emerges as both ravening monster and glamorous wild woman: jealous, possessive, competitive, greedy . . . yet also fantastical, erotic, and wickedly imaginative. But who is the real Zelda? Little by little, doubts about Roger's version creep in until what began as a
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Roger and Zelda were lovers. Best friends. Ardent, fun-loving, passionate, they were intellectual and sexual soul mates, a perfect match. And then they got married. How is it that a little piece of paper and a signature in the courthouse records can make such a difference? What happens when love becomes legal is the wellspring of this bawdy, exuberant, all too recognizably familiar tale of modern marriage. As Roger tells it - and does he ever tell it! - Zelda emerges as both ravening monster and glamorous wild woman: jealous, possessive, competitive, greedy . . . yet also fantastical, erotic, and wickedly imaginative. But who is the real Zelda? Little by little, doubts about Roger's version creep in until what began as a comedy of manners (admittedly bad) turns into a wry and telling commentary on true love and the egocentricity of the eternal male. And so the war goes on. Conjugal Bliss is John Nichols' ninth novel. A sexual comedy that will draw blood as well as laughs, it is Nichols at his funniest, most outrageous best.

The acclaimed author of The Milagro Beanfield Wars offers a hip, sexy, and very funny new novel of the war zone that is modern marriage. Zelda possesses everything that Roger wants in a woman. But when this perfectly matched pair of passionate lovers exchanges vows, all hell breaks loose.

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Lively, personable narrative and a myriad of piercing insights on the politics of marriage spice this piquant, entertaining domestic comedy set in the American Southwest. Roger, the middle-aged author of a popular sci-fi detective series, finds his seemingly perfect relationship with sexy, fiery Zelda at an end when he marries her. Suddenly, he is dangerously overmatched in a high-stakes marital power struggle--punctuated by interludes of extraordinary sex. Roger begins his narrative with the fight that marked both ``the first time ever, by either sex, that I'd been clobbered,'' and six months and two days of wedded bliss. He traces back their evolution as a couple and the causes of their numerous battles. Each has children by a previous marriage and Roger's ex-girlfriends and ex-wife still live nearby, but there are also the other more classic challenges of marriage--conflicting needs for privacy and openness, candor and tact, loyalty and independence--which fashion a tempestuous union that is at once too painful to continue and too sublime to surrender. Nichols writes with panache and great wit through the reckless, fitfully candid, yet confused voice of his protagonist. If his novel occasionally teeters on the brink of farce it always returns with some lucid observation to delight any reader with even a fleeting knowledge of the institution of marriage. Holt will reissue a 20th-anniversary facsimile edition of Nichols's best-known work, The Milagro Beanfield War , to coincide with this publication. (Feb.)
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A copy editor's mark on the book's cover, changing martial to marital , goes far in explaining the premise of Nichols's new romp. Roger and Zelda are happily in love--until they get married. Soon Roger finds Zelda jealous and grasping beyond his worst nightmares, but as readers read on, they begin to suspect that maybe Roger's version of the marriage is not so accurate.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780805028034
  • Publisher: Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 12/21/1993
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
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