First Chapters
Ursula Creagh, 3 June 1982
Life after Marriage: Scenes from Divorce
by A. Alvarez.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £8.95, June 1982,0 333 24161 4 Show More
by A. Alvarez.
Macmillan, 268 pp., £8.95, June 1982,
“... of nature; ‘she’ is taciturn, hates toast crusts, has fixed black rages and eyes like green stone. Even her own parents are wonderstruck that anyone should want to marry her; his parents dote on him. But above all he suffers. He is sensitive and she is not. ‘There is,’ Alvarez writes, ‘even a certain status in being one of the world’s walking ... ”