The happy couple : a novel / Naoise Dolan.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First U.S. editionDescription: 259 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780063330467
- 0063330466
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Fiction | New | DOLAN, NAOISE | Checked out | 05/29/2024 | 33111011100142 | |||
Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | New | DOLAN, NAOISE | Available | 33111011210958 | ||||
Adult Book | Northport Library | Fiction | DOLAN, NAOISE | Available | 33111011140007 |
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"Daring . . . a brilliant contemporary novel."--Colm Tóibín
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.
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd."--Title page verso.
"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. 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 ... 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Part I: The bride -- Part II: The bridesmaid -- Part III: The best man -- Part IV: The groom -- Part V: The guest -- Part VI: Wedding day.