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Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (?)
9780865475489 (?) of 0865475482
, in Engels, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hardeband, Nuwe
Cleaving~~Dennis-Covington, Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage, Hardcover
Kategorie: Biography>Memoir Other>Memoir Other
Data uit 2017-01-14 15:20h
ISBN (alternatiewe skryfwyses): 0-86547-548-2, 978-0-86547-548-9
Dennis Covington; Vicki Covington (?):
Cleaving: The Story of a Marriage (?)
0865475482 (?) of 9780865475489
, in Engels, North Point Pr, Gebruik
arts and literature,authors,biographies,leaders and notable people,literature and fiction,memoirs,religious,specific groups, One doesn't know whether to admire Vicki and Dennis Covington for writing Cleaving or to shudder and hide one's head in the sand. Written in alternating voices, this tag-team memoir draws a thorough portrait of one marriage, complete with decades' worth of adultery, drugs, alcoholism, abortion, and sin. In the Covingtons' case, these bohemian carryings-on come mixed with a goodly portion of old-time religion. After going sober, the couple settled down to raising daughters, attending church, doing good works, and writing books (they claim 7 between them, including Dennis's thoughtful Salvation on Sand Mountain, a finalist for the National Book Award). They even spearheaded a church mission to drill wells in Central America, a project which here yields not only life-giving water but also a rich flood of marital metaphor. Yet their problems didn't go away. Charged with writing an inspirational book about marriage, the Covingtons found their own union once again in serious disarray. Rather than making themselves look good, they chose to tell the absolute truth about what had passed between them, and in the process they created this unusual memoir, an unflinching look at the forces that bind a couple together as well as those that rend them apart. After all, as Vicki points out, the word cleave--taken from the Biblical injunction for a man to leave his mother and father--can mean either to cling to or to divide, "as by a cutting blow." In their case, it
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