When her husband announces that he is in love with another woman, Rachel, a noted cookbook author and TV personality, returns to New York and her wacky but loving family and friends to sort out her life. Cookbook author Rachel Samstat--out of analysis and seven months pregnant--discovers that her husband is into analysis and an affair, and suffers six weeks of intensive heartburn.

The acclaimed author of Revolutionary Road—one of the most important writers of the twentieth century—movingly portrays a man and a woman from their courtship and marriage in the 1950s to their divorce in the 70s, chronicling their heartbreaking attempts to reach their highest ambitions.
Michael Davenport dreams of being a poet after returning home from World War II Europe, and at first he and his new wife Lucy enjoy...

An affluent, upper-class family breaks apart in the late 1980s when scandal and tragedy erupt.

May Sarton's celebrated novel of family, philosophy, and survival, set between the two great wars that cleaved Europe in two In the wake of the First World War, life for the Duchesnes goes on almost as it always has. Situated near a vegetable garden, an orchard, and rolling green pastures, their Belgian estate is one of the few that escaped dereliction in the difficult preceding years.   The garden is Mélanie Duchesne's lifeblood-a boost to her...

Collection of short stories on the themes of middle age, marriage, and family relationships.

A witty modern-day classic about two unique couples discovering universal truths about love and marriage from "a wise, bighearted writer" (The Washington Post).
Guido Morris and Vincent Cardworthy are third cousins and best friends. In college they dreamed of writing poetry (Guido) and winning the Nobel Prize in Physics (Vincent). Now in their late twenties, they are together again in Cambridge and on the verge of settling down

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HEnry Parker Britland IV is wealthy and worldly--a beloved former president who, still youthful, is enjoying early retirement. his new wife, Sunday, is beautiful, smart, and seventeen years younger than he, and has just been elected to congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her the darling of the media. Henry and Sundya make a formidable team of sleuths-- and never more so than when they set out to solve crimes occuring among their friends...

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.