Such a Lovely Couple

by Linda Yellin

Overview

A charming and bittersweet first novel, set in the 1980's, about falling in love and marrying your best friend, then divorcing because you both have gently drifted apart, only to discover too late that you made a mistake that can’t be fixed because the love of your life now has a fatal brain tumor. Yellin will win you over with her keen eye, warm wit and heartbreaking story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451651881
Publisher:	Pocket Star
Publication date:	09/06/2011
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Linda Yellin writes humor pieces for More magazine. She wrote numerous short stories for Redbook magazine back when they still published short stories and was a regular guest on SiriusXM Radio’s women’s talk show, "Broadminded." Her writing career began in advertising where she wrote headlines for shampoos, hamburgers, and cheese. Get the scoop at LindaYellin.com.

Editorial Reviews

It is 1972, and Jewish antiwar college student Franny Baskin is wondering why she's accepted a blind date with Michael Wedlan, a 26-year-old Baptist Vietnam veteran. When he turns out to be intelligent, charming, exceedingly handsome and smitten with her, romance blossoms. They marry, but their union begins to fray around the edges when Michael loses interest in his career and confronts a succession of jobs, additional schooling and periods of depression. A litany of the ills of modern marriage ensues: anger, indifference, lack of communication. Finally, Franny and Michael each have an affair, and their shell of a marriage cracks apart. But when Michael develops cancer, apparently as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Franny and Michael learn to love each other as they never could during their marriage. Yellin has a gift for moving the plot along and imbuing a familiar tale with freshness and humor. But it is in the description of Michael's illness and Franny's response to it that the novel is most affecting and, ironically, most alive. A good read from a promising writer with the wit and verve of Susan Isaacs. (Nov.)

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