Description
In 1987, an encounter between Julian Wainwright, the scion of a New York City old money family and an aspiring writer, and Mia Mendelsohn, a beautiful Jewish girl, ignites a love affair, spurred on by family tragedy, that spans twenty years, in a novel that looks at the course of love over time and the impact of ambition, money, tensons of faith, betrayal, and the specter of mortality. Reprint. 45,000 first printing.
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It's the fall of 1986, and Julian Wainwright, an aspiring writer, arrives at Graymont College in New England. Here he meets Carter Heinz, with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship, and beautiful Mia Mendelsohn, with whom he falls in love. Spurred on by a family tragedy, Julian and Mia's love affair will carry them to graduation and beyond, taking them through several college towns, over the next fifteen years. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is a stunning novel of love and friendship, money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It is a richly detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone-to do it when you're young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age.
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