The Music Room (Reading Group Guides)
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780312277444
Subjects: General; Fiction; Fiction - General
First sentence: In the bicentennial year of our country's independence from Great Britain, a time when I imagined the American masses celebrative and awash with a sense of history and continuity, my wife of only four years decided it would be best for both of us if she moved in with her mother for a while-a trial separation, she said, though we both were so immediately relieved by the idea of parting, the real thing was bound to endure.