May We Borrow Your Husband?: & Other Comedies Of The Sexual Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
What begins as a seemingly innocent seaside holiday quickly unravels into a wickedly observed comedy of desire, manipulation, and human frailty in Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life. The title story chronicles a narrator's uneasy watch as two charming interior decorators subtly conspire to seduce a young newlywed husband away from his oblivious bride — a premise that is at once farcical, tender, and quietly devastating. The eleven stories collected here present a gallery of lovers, innocents, and schemers navigating the treacherous terrain of sex and sentiment, rendered in Greene's characteristically precise and ironic prose. Greene, best known for his morally complex novels, demonstrates in this collection that his razor wit is equally at home in the short form, wielding comedy as a scalpel to dissect the absurdities of romantic life. The tone throughout is dry and compassionate in equal measure, balancing laughter against an undertow of genuine pathos — a combination that marks Greene as a singular voice in twentieth-century British letters. First published in 1967, the collection stands as a testament to his extraordinary range, and leaves the reader wondering whether the real comedy lies in our desires themselves, or merely in the lengths we go to satisfy them.
Author: Graham Greene
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Viking
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
What begins as a seemingly innocent seaside holiday quickly unravels into a wickedly observed comedy of desire, manipulation, and human frailty in Graham Greene's May We Borrow Your Husband? & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life. The title story chronicles a narrator's uneasy watch as two charming interior decorators subtly conspire to seduce a young newlywed husband away from his oblivious bride — a premise that is at once farcical, tender, and quietly devastating. The eleven stories collected here present a gallery of lovers, innocents, and schemers navigating the treacherous terrain of sex and sentiment, rendered in Greene's characteristically precise and ironic prose. Greene, best known for his morally complex novels, demonstrates in this collection that his razor wit is equally at home in the short form, wielding comedy as a scalpel to dissect the absurdities of romantic life. The tone throughout is dry and compassionate in equal measure, balancing laughter against an undertow of genuine pathos — a combination that marks Greene as a singular voice in twentieth-century British letters. First published in 1967, the collection stands as a testament to his extraordinary range, and leaves the reader wondering whether the real comedy lies in our desires themselves, or merely in the lengths we go to satisfy them.