Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel

Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel
- Author: Leary, Ann.
- Publisher: Crown
- Pages: 272
- Publication Date: 2008
- Edition: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- MSRP: 23
- ISBN13: 9780307405876
- ISBN: 0307405877
- Other ISBN: 9780307449542
- Other ISBN Binding: printisbn
- Language: en
- Quality Rating: 1
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Julia and Joe Ferraro are living the good life in Manhattan now that Joeâ€™s finally made it; heâ€™s the star of a hit TV show and has just been nominated for a Golden Globe award. After many lean years, theyâ€™ve got a grand Upper West Side apartment and an Amagansett beach house, and their two kids go to elite private schools. Even better, Julia and Joe are still madly in love.

Or so Julia thinks until the fateful evening when she accidentally hears a voice mail on Joeâ€™s phoneâ€” a message left by a sultry-sounding woman who clearly isnâ€™t just a friend. Suddenly Julia is in a tailspin, compulsively checking Joeâ€™s messages, stalking him in cyberspace, and showing up unannounced on his sets, wondering all along if she should confront him. Juliaâ€™s search forces her to consider the possibility that in the long process of helping Joe become something, she has become a bit of a â€œnothing,â€ as her daughter once described her to her class on career day. A big husband-stalking nothing.

When Julia and Joe first met, she was an edgy East Village girl who wrote music reviews for the Village Voice and threw famed parties in a gritty downtown loft with her friends. Joe was a shy, awkward drama student who followed her around like a lovesick spaniel. After he won her heart, Julia helped Joe evolve into a roguishly handsome charmer who became increasingly obsessed with his looks and his career. Julia, meanwhile, settled into doting motherhood and a new life of comfy clothes and parenting associations.

Now, faced with the looming awards show and the possibility of a destroyed marriage, Julia embarks on an accelerated self-improvement routine of Botox, hair extensions, and erotically charged shrink sessions while dodging the sancti-mommies who lie in wait for her at her sonâ€™s preschool each day.

A unique take on the perennially popular issue of women trying not to lose themselves in matrimony and motherhood, Outtakes from a Marriage is expertly and humorously set against the Manhattan preschool mafia, the Hollywood machine, and the ticking clock of a waiting red carpet.
Country USA
Brand CROWN
Manufacturer Crown
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2008-06-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307405876

Country	USA
Brand	CROWN
Manufacturer	Crown
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2008-06-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307405876

Outtakes from a Marriage: A Novel

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