Una perfetta felicità

This is a portrait of marriage. I felt very touched by the lives he describes, not so much for their own travails, but in recognition of my own. There is such sadness in expectations unfulfilled. Our lives do not follow the script we write as inexperienced authors of our lives. We drift apart, do no Leggi tutto

Light Years is a novel about a marriage and about home – home only sometimes the place where the heart is. Salter focuses on a couple who usually have a supporting role in other novels. The kind of restless, disaffected, showy, promiscuous couple who provide an inkling that there’s something rotten Leggi tutto

A very beautifully written portrait of an adulterous marriage, adulterous on both sides. It's a novel essentially made up of vignettes, snapshots, defining moments. There's little dramatic tension but it's a tremendously wise and philosophical and poetical novel. What I would say is that Salter is m Leggi tutto

“There are really two kinds of life. There is the one people believe you are living, and there is the other. It is the other which causes the trouble, this other we long to see.” This is the second novel in a row I’ve read that calls attention to the idea of deception. In this case, the deception is Leggi tutto