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Jeremy Cook, a language expert, takes a job with The Pillow Agency, an unusual marriage counseling firm, and his first assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a troubled couple
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David Carkeet is the author of five novels, including three New York Times Notable Books. His honors include an Edgar nomination, an O. Henry Award, an NEA Fellowship, and the AWP Creative Nonfiction Award. He lived in St. Louis for thirty years with his wife and three daughters. He currently lives in Worcester, Vermont.
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Flaky, amiable Jeremy Cook, the linguist Carkeet introduced in Double Negative , leaves the ivied halls of academe for the closer confines of a suburban home in this wrenching yet often exhilarating examination of a troubled modern marriage. When the Wabash Institute in Indiana folds for lack of funding, Jeremy slips into a job in Saint Louis, Mo., with the Pillow Agency, a zany marriage-counseling service. His assignment is to move in with Beth and Dan Wilson and, by observing their interactions, help them decide if their marriage can be saved. Jeremy insinuates himself into the Wilsons' daily activities. His relationship with the couple and their game 10-year-old Robbie is at once intimate and distant, definitely a seat-of-the-pants proposition, but his training as a linguist serves him, and probably the Wilsons, well. Carkeet's premise is fresh, his characters utterly winning and his comic observations full of affection for those caught up in the complex confusions of love. Laugh-out-loud scenes and swift, convincing dialogue mark this lunatic look at serious issues; the conclusion may be irresolute, but all the more believable for that. Literary Guild alternate.
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- PublisherWashington Square Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0671732455
- ISBN 13 9780671732455
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- Number of pages317
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Minor shelf wear. ; First edition, first printing. Nice tight flat copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. Cover design by Carol Bokuniewicz, artwork by Robert Zimmerman. ; 324 pages; Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but not how marriage works. In fact he's somewhat hostile to the institution, so his latest role as a live in linguist in a linguistically troubled marriage of two rich suburbanites in St Louis is something that makes him feel uneasy. But he'll help if he can to try and discover the problem in Dan and Beth's marriage. Trade PB. Seller Inventory # 24888
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