Monogamy, Miller SueAnnie is not the first love of Graham's life but she is, he thinks, his last and greatest. Very recently, he has faltered; but he means to put it right. Here they are in marriage, in late middle age, in comfort. Mismatched, and yet so well matched: the bookseller with his appetite, his conviviality, his bigness; the photographer with her delicacy, her astuteness, her reserve. The children are offstage, grown up and scattered on either coast; Graham's

a woman conceives

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and the book's understated development of serious underlying themes: "natural" man versus "civilized" society

she vows never to love another

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The terminally ill bride who defied the odds and walked down the aisle

releasing past experiences at a cellular level

constituents

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feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle

a fantasy that reads like realism