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      <name><![CDATA[Rafael Yglesias]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A heart-wrenching and insightful examination of the author's long, (although cut short by cancer) and fruitful, albeit sometimes fraught, marriage.  Also, it is an interesting window into the male mind and how their ego, better-their sense of self, is informed and even formed by the most significant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75907241">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 13 12:52:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 13 12:53:43 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high hopes for this book after I heard an interview with the author and even (foolishly) gave a copy of it to my father as it was portrayed as a husband and wife’s struggle with her ending years and her final days as she dies of cancer.<br/><br/>The title is misleading, I think, as the boo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74418073">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Aug 31 05:25:06 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a beautiful book. I had to think about the number of stars. Though I wouldn't quite give it amazing, that being reserved for books like War &amp; Peace, that are really life-changing, I think it deserves more than &quot;really liked it.&quot;<br/><br/>This is a painful book, a book that made ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69541912">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a stunning evocation of thirty year marriage.  Using short vignettes, the author moves back and forth between his courtship of the woman who becomes his wife and his attending her, more than thirty years later, as she faces a terminal illness.  (There are a few moments, along the way, includ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69421296">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jul 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[4.5/5 stars<br/><br/>The story A Happy Marriage begins in the 1970's when Enrique Sabas meets Margaret Cohen, who becomes his future wife. The two come from different backgrounds, but despite that, there is an immediate attraction. <br/><br/>Told in alternating chapters, it is a poignant story. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62900153">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Happy Marriage, at many times, is the story of anything but a Happy Marriage. The novel is about Enrique Sabas, a struggling half-Jewish, half-Latino writer living in New York City and Margaret Cohen, his ivy league educated wife. The novel opens in 1975 with Enrique meeting Margaret. He immediate...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62339921">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[“A Happy Marriage” is autobiography thinly disguised as fiction.  This is an incredibly moving and intensely literary book.  Mr. Ygelsias has written a profoundly personal book, which exhibits his powers as a storyteller in a manner evidencing respect for his audience as well as his subject.  Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65939653">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My husband heard a radio interview of the author one morning and had a very strong reaction to the description of the book.  I purchase the title on my Kindle and spent the next couple of days wishing I hadn't.  The story is well written, but starts off a little slow.  Once you get into the meat of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72221246">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yglesias is brutally honest in this deeply personal account of his thorny, but ultimately loving, marriage. He tells the parallel stories of the beginning and the end of this relationship &quot;in something of a tour de force of novelistic architecture&quot; (<em>New York Times</em>), which strikes a fine ba...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73292872">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I won the advance reader’s edition of this book on a Goodreads giveaway—thank you Goodreads!—and it immediately exceeded my expectations.  I am not a big fan of sad stories and from the beginning you know this book is going to have a sad ending.  <u>A Happy Marriage</u> is an autobiographical novel a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56601255">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Rafael Yglesias has employed the artist's approach to working through his pain. In his admittedly autobiographical novel, he presents in alternating chapters the rapturous beginning of new love from his first sighting of his wife, through her ultimate capitulation to cancer, rendered in searing deta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68903127">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard the author on Fresh Aire and wanted to read this book immediately.  Meeting and marrying at an early age (in the 70's), a relationship with your spouse lasting over 30 years, and dealing with death (in my case not my spouse thankfully) but parents, I was curious to see how the author would h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69099753">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this to be a compelling read...the author did a good job going back and forth with vignettes about he and his wife in the early days of their relationship as well as the last week of her life.  I heard him interviewed on &quot;Fresh Air&quot; and he said most of the story is based on his rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71397170">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[What makes a happy marriage?  Rafael Yglesias, prodigy novelist--he published his first novel at 16--and screenwriter, turns his considerable talent to answering that question in his new book, entitled appropriately enough,  <em>A Happy Marriage</em>.  It is no spoiler to say the answer turns out far too com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68800646">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I heard Rafael Yglesias interviewed a couple of months ago on &quot;Fresh Air,&quot; and after hearing him, I put a request in at the library for this book. It's based on fact, but he wrote it in novel form so he could go back and explore the early years of his marriage without having to be precise ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77241280">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="68019559">
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This novel was so honest it was almost too painful to read.  The narrator's wife is dying a very ugly death from cancer in her mid forties and he's helping her do that at home.  The writing flashes back to different times in their marriage alternating with the grim chapters from her present tense de...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68019559">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56172859">
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I struggle a little bit with the lines blurred between novel and autobiography. If it is an autobiography, why change the names? Why not just go full force and make it clearly YOU. I think I would have appreciated the book more if I didn't feel like I was guessing why Yglesias didn't just wr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56172859">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A breathtakingly beautiful book - I felt like I could have read this forever and never gotten tired of these characters. The author writes a highly autobiographical novel about a couple named Margaret and Enrique; they've been married for nearly 30 years, and Margaret is in the last stages of cancer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66788511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me awhile to get into the rhythm of the writing- the back and forth from a frightening present dealing with cancer to a long ago past was a bit jarring at first. After about 200 pages, I could not put it down. <br/><br/>I grew to love the character of Enrique, admittedly flawed as he was. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77193692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the book, primarily because it was well written. I started reading it as an autobiography, but found the descriptive parts of the story lacked credibility.  I kept thinking, “He’s making this up.” And “There’s no way he could remember that!”  Finally I treated it as a novel and t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69106480">more...</a>]]></body>
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