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About Anne Roiphe
See more books from this AuthorRoiphe is not against divorce, which ended her own first marriage, praising it as a release “from what Milton has called the ‘God forbidden loneliness’ of marital unhappiness.” Arranged marriages also receive measured approval;
| Read Full Review of Married: A Fine PredicamentShe wants to know what she can learn from Brittain and the rest about marriage, and the themes Roiphe focuses on remain relevant to 21st-century marriages: is domesticity compatible with long-term emotional engagement, or are marriages destined to become boring?
Apr 02 2007 | Read Full Review of Married: A Fine PredicamentReaders disgusted by sugarcoated, mushy sentiments will welcome this latest installment from the prolific Roiphe (Up the Sandbox;
| Read Full Review of Married: A Fine Predicamentthey were often open to affairs or more generally concerned with “questions of freedom and attraction.” And, as these couples were all more or less creative to begin with, she writes that “they felt their love affairs and marriages were themselves creative acts.” Roiphe goes one step further than...
Jan 24 2011 | Read Full Review of Married: A Fine PredicamentFor Roiphe understands that marriage can be the linchpin of family (although she acknowledges that many happy, healthy families do not involve marriages).
Jan 22 2011 | Read Full Review of Married: A Fine PredicamentWells was quite candid with his wife concerning his succession of mistresses, whereas Radclyffe Hall, best known for The Well of Loneliness, the first openly lesbian novel, managed to duplicate the same sad ménage of demanding mistress and disappointed wife in her lesbian affairs.
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