The edge of marriage
By: Hester Kaplan.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Athens, Ga
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: "In nine stories of tension-filled choices, difficult awakenings, and ironic twists, characters in The Edge of Marriage ride the wavering line between commitments and promises. Full of conflict, betrayal, manipulation, and indecision, these stories portray men and women on the brink of defeat and drastic change.

Characters trapped in troubled relationships and on the edge of society walk along Kaplan's "edge": an out-of-wedlock child, a grown victim of child abuse, the male lover of a married man with AIDS. The title story confronts the complexity of friendship, love, and marriage, as a husband faces his wife's emotional breakdown and his own surfacing resentments."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction."
Table of contents: title: Would you know it wasn't love?; title: Dysaesthesia; title: From where we've fallen; title: Cuckle me; title: The edge of marriage; title: Goodwill; title: Claude comes and goes; title: The spiral; title: Live life king-sized.