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  • The Married Man

  • A Novel
  • By: Edmund White
  • Narrated by: Ken Kliban
  • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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The Married Man

By: Edmund White
Narrated by: Ken Kliban
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Summary

In Edmund White's most moving novel yet, an American living in Paris finds his life transformed by an unexpected love affair.

Austin Smith is pushing fifty, loveless and drifting, until one day he meets Julien, a much younger, married Frenchman. In the beginning, the lovers' only impediments are the comic clashes of culture, age, and temperament. Before long, however, the past begins to catch up with them. In a desperate quest to save health and happiness, they move from Venice to Key West, from Montreal in the snow to Providence in the rain. But it is amid the bleak, baking sands of the Sahara that their love is pushed to its ultimate crisis.
©2000 Edmund White (P)2014 Audible Inc.
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
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Frustrated by Narration

Nearly spoilt by staccato, monotonous, and aggressive phraseology of narrator. Do persevere as well worth it, despite sad and tragic ending.

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More of the same from White

Again with White autobiographical novel that seems curiously uninvolving. Narrator was terrible. Didn't help things.

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Tediously to long

I liked some of his previously published works, but thus was tediously long winded and drawn out

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