From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less.

'A riveting and fascinating novel full of stunning observations and brilliant moments of truth and sympathy.' Colm Toibin

It is 1953, and in San Francisco Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself caring for both her husband's fragile health and her polio-afflicted son. Then one morning someone from her husband's past appears on their doorstep. His arrival throws all the certainties by which Pearlie has lived into doubt, and is brought face to face with the desperate measures people are prepared to take to escape the confines of their lives.

The Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer is a heartbreakingly beautiful love story full of secrets and astonishments set, in the changing world of 1950s San Francisco.

About the Author

Andrew Sean Greer was born in Washington, DC, the son of two scientists. He studied writing at Brown University and received his MFA from the University of Montana. He soon moved to San Francisco and began to publish in magazines such as Esquire, The Paris Review and The New Yorker before releasing a collection of his stories, How It Was for Me.

His first novel, The Path of Minor Planets, was published to much acclaim in 2001, and his second book, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, 2004 is an American bestseller. He lives in San Francisco.

Book Information
ISBN 9780571241019
Author Andrew Sean Greer
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publisher Faber & Faber
Weight(grams) 194g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm