The Engagements - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:J. Courtney Sullivan, Kimberly Farr (Narrator) A big, sprawling novel about marriage -- about those who marry in a white heat of passion, those who marry for partnership and comfort, and those who live together, love each other, and have absolutely no intention of ruining it all with a wedding. — Evelyn has been married to her husband for forty years -- forty years since he slipped off her fi... more »rst wedding ring and put his own in its place. Delphine knows both sides of love -- the ecstatic, glorious highs of seduction and the bitter, spiteful fury that descends when it's over.
James, a paramedic who works the night shift, knows his wife's family thinks she could have done better. Kate, partnered with Dan for ten years, has seen every kind of wedding -- from the Nantucket beach wedding to the Irish castle wedding -- and has vowed never, ever, to have one of her own.
And Mary Frances Gerety, a young advertising copywriter, knows exactly what marriage is: it's a diamond ring on a girl's finger -- and it's her job to make sure everyone believes that. Weaving these lives together, Sullivan gives us a sharply observed, witty, irresistible portrait of the thorny, joyful, and complicated union that is marriage.
Read by Kimberly Farr. 14 audio discs (17 hr.)« less