Article: Romance vs. real life: for June, the month of marriages, our reviewer considers new novels by three favorite writers about couples who find new meaning in "for better, for worse". (On Our Bookshelf).(Sweetwater, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, Morningside Heights)(Book Review) (book review)

STARTLING RELATIONSHIPS THAT enlist the reader's complicity lie at the heart of each of these three early summer novels. Two of them, Sweetwater by Roxana Robinson and The Pursuit of Alice Thrift by Elinor Lipman, are by much-admired fiction writers who possess unmistakable voices along with the gift of engaging us instantly in the lives of their wayward, desire-filled, all-too-human characters. Old hands at hijacking our sympathies, they know well how to keep us hooked on their surprises.

However, Morningside Heights, the third book here, can itself be counted as a surprise, for author Cheryl Mendelson's sole previous work was the best-selling domestic ...

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