Breakup
Subtitle: the end of a love story
By: Catherine Texier.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Texier, Catherine -- Marriage; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Marriage -- United States
Other titles: Break up
Description: Breakup is the erotically charged chronicle of the tempestuous final months of an eighteen-year romantic and literary partnership, self-destructing in the aftermath of the ultimate betrayal. Fearlessly and courageously, Texier chronicles the end of the love as it is wrecked by infidelity and deceit in a literary tour de force reminiscent by turns of Marguerite Duras and Henry Miller.

Texier writes in harrowing detail about the powerful sexual relationship she shared with her husband even during their breakup, how sex between them became a substitute for real intimacy, and how the fabric of a marriage (a shared cup of cafe au lait on a yellow table every morning, the memories of giving birth to two glorious daughters, of coediting their own literary magazine) is brutally dissolved.