The Married Man

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/11/2001
ISBN: 9780679781448
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.00d
Award: Triangle Awards - Winner

Review Citations: New York Times 09/02/2001 pg. 20