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Morris Philipson

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Description:Should a husband and wife tell each other everything? What difference does it make to the quality of a marriage where the line is drawn between intimacy and privacy?The characteristic disappointments of modern life seem to be experienced most often in failed or foundering marriages, in commitments broken or unfulfilled; and so it is a measure of Morris Philipson's unique achievement in this novel that he has succeeded in portraying a genuinely contemporary woman—independent-minded, creative, and worldly—whose conjugal love is put to the ultimate test…and triumphs.The vows that Shelagh and Chester Jackman made "to honor and cherish" each other are kept by their sensitivity to the delicate balance between candor and deception, companionship and solitude. With lucidity and incisiveness, Philipson reveals the nuances of human sympathies with which compassionate people cultivate their closest relationships. Shelagh Jackman's ultimate struggle is to be true to what she considers her best self in shared experiences with all the important figures in her life: with her husband, a federal judge, who knows more about her than either of them would want to admit; with her parents, Old World, highly civilized people with secrets of their own; with her two children in their mid-twenties identity crises; with her sister, Adrienne, who has her reason for rejecting marriage in favor of short-lived affairs; and with her friends—tensely married, or widowed, or divorced—who seek satisfactions that have eluded them. In each of these loving and complex relationships, Shelagh refines her answers to the questions central to her life and to ours: What does one owe to others, and what does one owe oneself?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Understandings. To get started finding Secret Understandings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Should a husband and wife tell each other everything? What difference does it make to the quality of a marriage where the line is drawn between intimacy and privacy?The characteristic disappointments of modern life seem to be experienced most often in failed or foundering marriages, in commitments broken or unfulfilled; and so it is a measure of Morris Philipson's unique achievement in this novel that he has succeeded in portraying a genuinely contemporary woman—independent-minded, creative, and worldly—whose conjugal love is put to the ultimate test…and triumphs.The vows that Shelagh and Chester Jackman made "to honor and cherish" each other are kept by their sensitivity to the delicate balance between candor and deception, companionship and solitude. With lucidity and incisiveness, Philipson reveals the nuances of human sympathies with which compassionate people cultivate their closest relationships. Shelagh Jackman's ultimate struggle is to be true to what she considers her best self in shared experiences with all the important figures in her life: with her husband, a federal judge, who knows more about her than either of them would want to admit; with her parents, Old World, highly civilized people with secrets of their own; with her two children in their mid-twenties identity crises; with her sister, Adrienne, who has her reason for rejecting marriage in favor of short-lived affairs; and with her friends—tensely married, or widowed, or divorced—who seek satisfactions that have eluded them. In each of these loving and complex relationships, Shelagh refines her answers to the questions central to her life and to ours: What does one owe to others, and what does one owe oneself?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Secret Understandings. To get started finding Secret Understandings, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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