Prosperous Friends
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Christine Schutt's novel follows a young married couple, Isabel and Ned Bourne, whose relationship is failing. The pair move between London, New York and Maine, and spend a summer with an elderly painter and his wife whose long marriage contrasts with theirs. Written in compressed, poetic prose, the novel examines desire, ambition, art, writing and the spectacle of love within a marriage that is quietly coming apart.
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- Shane Parrish: “Christine Schutt, whose prose has been compared to Emily Dickinson, examines the spectacle of love.”