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Such a Lovely Couple
Author: Linda Yellin

Michael Wedlan and Franny Baskin were such a lovely couple. They were also the most unlikely couple. Franny protested the war in Vietnam; Michael fought in it. Franny's mother warned her never to become dependent on a man; Michael wanted somebody to take care of. Franny was Jewish; Michael was raised Baptist by a father who taught Sunday school.... more » Naturally, they got married. This is their story. It's about what two people feel when they first make love. When they get married. When they cheat on each other. And when they make up. Most of all, it's about growing up, growing older, growing apart, and growing--perhaps too late--to cherish and appreciate the love of a lifetime.

SUCH A LOVELY COUPLE is about falling in love...almost falling out of love?

Franny--Feisty, funny, smart-alecky, and scared to death underneath, she never even hoped anybody as gorgeous as Michael would ask her out. Or insist on taking care of her. Or tell her he wanted to marry her ... and have children with her. Loving Michael was like a fairytale come true ... until it all came apart.

Michael--Strong, sexy, and mature, with a face that belonged on a magazine cover, he was drawn to Franny's childlike wonder and innocence, the two things he no longer felt after Vietnam. All he wanted was a wife and children, so he reinvented himself to fit into Franny's life. Accepting her family. Her religion. Her home. He just wasn't prepared to accept himself ... or what was going to happen to him . . . . AND DISCOVERING THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVE

WARNING: SPOILER--From Publishers Weekly

It is 1972, and Jewish antiwar college student Franny Baskin is wondering why she's accepted a blind date with Michael Wedlan, a 26-year-old Baptist Vietnam veteran. When he turns out to be intelligent, charming, exceedingly handsome and smitten with her, romance blossoms. They marry, but their union begins to fray around the edges when Michael loses interest in his career and confronts a succession of jobs, additional schooling and periods of depression. A litany of the ills of modern marriage ensues: anger, indifference, lack of communication. Finally, Franny and Michael each have an affair, and their shell of a marriage cracks apart. But when Michael develops cancer, apparently as a result of his exposure to Agent Orange in Vietnam, Franny and Michael learn to love each other as they never could during their marriage. Yellin has a gift for moving the plot along and imbuing a familiar tale with freshness and humor. But it is in the description of Michael's illness and Franny's response to it that the novel is most affecting and, ironically, most alive. A good read from a promising writer with the wit and verve of Susan Isaacs.

Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

ISBN-13: 9780446360685
ISBN-10: 0446360686
Publication Date: 11/1991
Pages: 345
Edition: Warner Books ed
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Publisher: Warner Books Inc
Book Type: Paperback
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