<![CDATA[Matrimony: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[Matrimony: A Novel]]> 1330763 2 From the moment he was born, Julian Wainwright has lived a life of Waspy privilege. The son of a Yale-educated investment banker, he grew up in a huge apartment on Sutton Place, high above the East River, and attended a tony Manhattan private school. Yet, more than anything, he wants to get out–out from under his parents’ influence, off to Graymont College, in western Massachusetts, where he hopes to become a writer. When he arrives, in the fall of 1986, Julian meets Carter Heinz, a scholarship student from California with whom he develops a strong but ambivalent friendship. Carter’s mother, desperate to save money for his college education, used to buy him reversible clothing, figuring she was getting two items for the price of one. Now, spending time with Julian, Carter seethes with resentment. He swears he will grow up to be wealthy–wealthier, even, than Julian himself. Then, one day, flipping through the college facebook, Julian and Carter see a photo of Mia Mendelsohn. Mia from Montreal, they call her. Beautiful, Jewish, the daughter of a physics professor at McGill, Mia is–Julian and Carter agree–dreamy, urbane, stylish, refined. But Julian gets to Mia first, meeting her by chance in the college laundry room. Soon they begin a love affair that–spurred on by family tragedy–will carry them to graduation and beyond, taking them through several college towns, over the next ten years. Then Carter reappears, working for an Internet company in California, and he throws everyone’s life into turmoil: Julian’s, Mia’s, his own. Starting at the height of the Reagan era and ending in the new millennium, Matrimony is about love and friendship, about money and ambition, desire and tensions of faith. It asks what happens to a marriage when it is confronted by betrayal and the specter of mortality. What happens when people marry younger than they’d expected? Can love endure the passing of time? In its emotional honesty, its luminous prose, its generosity and wry wit, Matrimony is a beautifully detailed portrait of what it means to share a life with someone–to do it when you’re young, and to try to do it afresh on the brink of middle age. 1320253 2 10 2007 Matrimony: A Novel total:523|5:23|4:172|3:196|2:98|1:34| 523 1621 921 177 4 7 false false Thu Dec 13 20:03:14 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 13 20:50:22 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 4 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 04:49:05 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 03 08:12:18 -0800 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Tue Aug 21 19:03:32 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 27 09:00:28 -0700 2007 3 3 false false Thu Dec 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 29 13:51:26 -0700 2008 Mon Dec 08 12:54:00 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 01 09:18:53 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 09 07:36:58 -0800 2008 That said, I think the novel was really carefully written, and is beautiful. It's slow moving, and character-focused. Plus, part...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 16:41:03 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 16:41:43 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 10:07:29 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 10:27:18 -0800 2008
It was right before Thanksgiving when I got an email from Joshua Henkin asking me if I would be interested in reviewing on my blog the copy of his book "Matrimony" I won from another blogger. My first reply was I would read his book fir...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 18 14:55:15 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 14:56:07 -0800 2009 This wasn't my normal fare but I enjoyed it, the characters were fully fleshed out and kept your interest. At times they made you angry and othe...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 14:58:14 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 15:08:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 17:52:51 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 17:53:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri May 01 16:38:25 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 16:39:12 -0700 2009 Matrimony by Joshua Henkin is a novel about people, relationships, and life. The book follows the life of Julian Wainwright, his wife Mia, and a select few of their friends. We first meet the characters in college and follow along as they grow, mature, and face the new challenges of life that inev...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 28 10:31:20 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 14:56:26 -0800 2008
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The book is called Matrimony, but it didn’t really seem to about matrimony. Ultra-rich Julian befriends middle class Carter at their liberal and anti-establishment ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:39:41 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 00:43:32 -0700 2009 Essentially this details the lives of two college couples who go through lifes up...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 30 20:43:10 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 21:44:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:47:38 -0800 2009 Tue Apr 07 16:53:03 -0700 2009 http://wordstomouth.com/?p=442

Upon editing my chat with Josh, I realized this interview is as much for writers as it is readers. Josh, folds his life philosophies and his writing tips adeptly into MATRIMONY and our interview. He is an engaging ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Dec 26 12:22:30 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 11:37:36 -0800 2009
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Matrimony for me started out slow but once I got more involved in the characters lives I was hooked ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Jan 18 08:28:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 08:28:23 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 11:41:39 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 21:29:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1330763