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In 1987, Manhattan-reared hothouse flower Julian Wainwright matriculates at the alternative Graymont College for the express purposes of attending Professor Stephen Chesterfield's exclusive fiction writing workshop. As Chesterfield dryly infuses his writing wisdom, Julian befriends the cocky, aloof, lesser-born Carter Heinz when they are the only two to whom Chesterfield gives the nod. Carter soon meets Pilar in the cafeteria; Julian meets Mia in the laundry room. Carter's simmering class resentment of Julian surfaces. Senior year finds the two couples living next door to one another and plotting their futures. Henkin (Swimming Across the Hudson) subsequently follows the lovers for the next 15 years through countless college towns, family dramas, failed literary projects and the dot-com boom. Many scenes are too long, and never get below the surface of the cast, particularly wannabe-litterateur Julian. But for a book called Matrimony, Henkin offers surprisingly little about Julian and Mia's marriage, so when big confrontations do arrive, they quickly slide into melodrama. By then, lines like But I don't want to get my M.F.A. Can't you understand that? I've already been in enough writing workshops will have cleared the classroom. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.

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Henkin (Swimming across the Hudson, 1997) is the most unassuming of storytellers, his scenes consistently low-key and his prose refreshingly unadorned. Yet, slowly and steadily, he builds a deeply affecting portrait of a marriage, tracking its evolution over 20 years. Julian Wainwright, the wealthy son of longtime New Yorkers and an aspiring novelist, meets Mia Mendelsohn, the daughter of a Canadian physicist, in the laundry room of their bohemian college. Their rapport is immediate; they share the same slightly goofy, whimsical sense of humor and a buoyant optimism. Over the next decades, as they move from one college town to another, Mia becomes a therapist, Julian suffers a massive bout of writer's block, and they have a falling-out over Julian's best friend but then reunite and decide to have a child. Henkin emphasizes the passage of time and how it both brings the two new challenges and deepens their bond. In this heartfelt homage to the risks and rewards of marriage, Henkin never artificially amps up his material, instead allowing the quiet accumulation of his characters' shared experiences to create for his readers a world they will recognize and relate to. Wilkinson, Joanne --Ce texte provient de la Hardcover édition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Life, long love, and friendship, Oct. 20 2008
Matrimony's strengths are twofold. Exceptionally smooth prose makes it an effortless and enjoyable reading experience. And emotional honesty offers us a wholly believable and satifying story. We follow a young Julian and Mia through their college years and an early marriage, to career choices and changes, the loss of a parent, and lingering doubts about Julian's ability to become the writer he wants to be. Their closest friends, Carter and Pilar, share those times with them and life moves forward as they spend some years both studying and teaching in different college towns. We watch them mature, gaining new insights about each other as parents age, friends split up, illness threatens, and an old secret causes a deep wound.

The author is clearly perceptive about the intricacies of relationships and of matrimony. We may see this as the story of a young couple's marital course but it is more. For there are in fact several marriages here when we take into account both Julian and Mia's friends as well as their respective parents. While our main interest follows them, each couple's relationship is unique and working itself out in its own ways too and we are privy to all of it. This is a quiet but solid story, driven by well-developed, complex characters whose lives we are seriously interested in. It's about life, long love, and friendship, and it's one story you don't want to miss out on. Four and a half stars out of five. Highly recommended.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Beautiful Writing and Great Plot, Oct. 12 2008
Par Sheri S. (Montreal, Quebec) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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With all of the book blog buzz that has been generated about "Matrimony" in the past couple of months, I just had to read and review the book for myself. I was however a bit worried that it would not live up to its hype, as is often the case, but after reading the first few pages I knew I would not be disappointed.

"Matrimony" takes place over the course of twenty years, primarily following the lives of Julian and Mia, whose relationship blossoms in college and subsequently leads to matrimony. While it can be said that "Matrimony" is indeed a love story, I think it is really so much more. Relationships with family and friends are equally important elements of the storyline and shape who Julian and Mia are, as well as who they become. And as with any story that centers on relationships, themes of betrayal, greed, jealousy and death rear their ugly heads. However despite all the drama, there was never a point in the story when I felt like I was stuck in a contrived soap opera world. I did not need to be convinced of the plot's credibility because I was already picturing it all unfolding right before my very eyes.

The true test of an author's ability to depict believable characters is whether those fictional people are able to elicit genuine feeling from the reader. Regardless of whether a character inspires my compassion, admiration or even indignation, all that matters is that they are real to me. Henkin has succeeded in this respect, as Julian and Mia, along with most of the supporting characters, jump out of the pages and come alive.

What I loved most about the book is the way events from the past are so intricately weaved throughout the story and never detract from the main plot. It is the fluidity of the narrative makes "Matrimony" such an effortless read and Henkin's beautiful writing that makes it such an enjoyable one.

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