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Chargement... The Happy Couple: A Novel (édition 2023)par Naoise Dolan (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Celine and Luke are planning to get married and the road to their wedding day is told by several different friends who all have plenty to say about the couple. Along with their friends' negativity, both Celine and Luke have a lot of baggage to work through before they have their happily ever after...or will they just call it quits? The book is cleverly divided into six chapters that is told by one of the characters. Bottom line...life and love are both messy and there is no perfect solution for everyone. This book was an interesting look at two people who thought that marriage was the ultimate answer but to what question?? I enjoyed this book and the way the author told the story. I really didn't love any of the characters but learned to like them more as I read their perspectives on love and marriage. It's an interesting look at marriage in the modern age The Happy Couple is an intriguing read about people not acting at their best, but realistically. It’s about situations and relationship that don’t make sense, but the characters do them anyway. It’s messy and addictive. I couldn’t get enough of this book! The story is centred around Luke and Celine. They’ve been together for awhile so it’s probably time to get married. They are very different – Celine’s head is usually thinking about music and Luke has cheated on her with most of her friends. But Celine says yes, and preparations for the wedding start. This brings exes into their sphere and starts planting seeds of doubt once the engagement party takes place. Chapters are told from Celine and Luke’s point of view, then move to those of the wedding party. Phoebe is Celine’s little sister who is less successful but misses nothing. Archie, Luke’s best friend (and ex) still wants Luke and can’t move on. Vivian, another one of Luke’s exes, helps to put things in perspective. And Celine’s ex Maria also reappears to add her perspective. Meanwhile, both Celine and Luke (and some of the others) are working out what marriage means to them, if anything. In the midst of this are their Irish families with their own takes on marriage, some tainted by bitter experience. There will definitely be comparisons to Sally Rooney’s novels here. For the record, I found Dolan’s writing much less overwrought with emotion and the characters more interesting. Not everything is revealed at once about the characters. During the novel, I found myself disliking some of them initially but as their motivations and the reasons for their actions were revealed, I grew to like them more. Dolan doesn’t need flowery prose; she cuts to the heart of the matter with relatively few words. The dialogue is sharp and there is quite a bit of dry humour, which I appreciated. But it never felt like she was poking her at her characters, rather just exposing the peculiarities of various situations. I enjoyed the messiness of it all – it’s not at train wreck levels but more relatable. Dolan also casts a modern lens on the institution of marriage and where is fits in the modern world, including sexuality, monogamy and financial. I absolutely gulped down this novel. I think it would make a good TV series as each character is quite unique (and those who aren’t, get minimum page time). It’s exciting to see what the characters do next, with a relatively unexpected twist. Thank you to Hachette for the copy of this book. My review is honest. http://samstillreading.wordpress.com aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: The Millions * LitHub * Electric Literature An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart Meet Celine and Luke. For all intents and purposes, the happy couple. Luke (a serial cheater) and Celine (more interested in piano than domestic life) plan to marry in a year. Archie (the best man) should be moving on from his love for Luke and up the corporate ladder, but he finds himself utterly stuck. Phoebe (the bridesmaid and Celine's sister) just wants to get to the bottom of Luke's frequent unexplained disappearances. And Vivian (a wedding guest) is the only one with any emotional distance and observes her friends like ants in a colony. As the wedding approaches and their five lives intersect, these characters will each look for a path to the happily ever after—but does it lie at the end of an aisle? In her wry, sprightly, and unmistakable voice, Naoise Dolan makes the marriage plot entirely her own in a sparkling ensemble novel that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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