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Article: BOOK REVIEW
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1994
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LOVE and marriage, we used to be told, go together like a horse
and carriage. If so, we in Britain have now reached a point where
the axle breaks or the horses bolt in about 40 per cent of cases,
strewing dazed and injured casualties along the way. The rate of
breakdown is even higher in the United States, suggesting that
something might be wrong with the institution itself. Any honest
critique of marriage would have at least to address this
possibility, but Regina Barreca rules it out in her first chapter.
In response to the question "Why a husband?", the twice-married
Barreca makes a cute comparison between single life and her aunts'
habit of keeping the best furniture covered up: "I ...