Marry me

Marry Me is subtitled “A Romance” because in the author’s words “people don’t act like that anymore.” The time is 1962 and the place is a fiefdom of Camelot called Greenwood Connecticut. Jerry Conant and Sally Mathias are in love and want to get married though they already are married to others. A diadem of five symmetrical chapters describes the course of their affair as it flickers off and on and as their spouses react in a tentative latesummer atmosphere of almostlast chances. For this is as Jerry observes “the twilight of the old morality and there’s just enough to torment us and not enough to hold us in.”