If You Left

If You Left

A seductive novel about a privileged but damaged Manhattan wife whose main source of stability â€” her marriage â€” comes under threat, from forces both without and within.

For most of their marriage, Althea has fluctuated betweenÂ extreme depressive and manic states â€” what she callsÂ â€œthe Tombsâ€ and â€œthe Visionsâ€ â€” andÂ Oliver has been the steady hand that guided her to safety. This summer, AltheaÂ decidesÂ that she will be different from here on. She will be the loving, sexy wife Oliver wants, and the reliable, affectionate mother their nine year-old daughter Clem deserves.Â Her plan: toÂ bring Clem to their Easthampton home once school is out â€” with no â€œsummer girlâ€ to care for her this time â€” and become â€œnormal.â€Â
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But Oliver is distant and controlling, and his relationship with their interior decorator seems a bit too close; Clem has learned to be self-sufficient, and getting to know her now feels like very hard work for Althea. Into this scene enters the much younger, David Foster Wallaceâ€“reading house painter, whoÂ reaches something in Althea that has been long buried.Â
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Fearless, darkly funny, and compulsively readable, If You LeftÂ explores the complex dance that is the bipolar marriage, and the possibility that to move forward, we might have to destroyÂ the very thingsÂ we've worked hardest to build.Â
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Country USA
Brand Harper Perennial
Manufacturer Harper Perennial
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2016-06-14
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780544263680

Country	USA
Brand	Harper Perennial
Manufacturer	Harper Perennial
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2016-06-14
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780544263680

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