40 love / Madeleine Wickham.
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TextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2011.Edition: 2nd St. Martin's Press hardcover edDescription: 276 p. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0312562756
- 9780312562755
- Forty love
- Tennis party
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Main Library | Fiction | Wickham Mad | Available | 33111006789149 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples' children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Wickham's nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem, and in the end one thing is crystal clear: the weekend is about anything but tennis.
"A Thomas Dunne book."
Originally published as: The tennis party. London : Black Swan, 1995.
A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.