000			01811nam a2200277 a 4500
001			063053
005			20231009193135.0
008			120120s2010 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2010040658
020			_a9781590513941
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPT2681.T3234 _bS5413 2010
082	0	0	_aFIC STA
100	1		_aStamm, Peter, 1963-
240	1	0	_aSieben Jahre _l. English
245	1	0	_aSeven years _c/ Peter Stamm ; translated [from the German] by Michael Hofmann.
260			_aNew York _b: Other Press _c, 2010
300			_a264 p. _c; 21cm.
520			_aSwiss author Stamm (Agnes) examines the complications of love and attraction in this captivating novel. Alex and his gorgeous and brilliant wife, Sonia, run an architecture firm and have a lovely daughter. It is the life he always thought he deserved, but during the fateful seventh year of marriage Alex scratches a familiar itch with Ivona, an old flame who is so tremendously plain and boring that Alex considers himself too good for her, and yet, for reasons inexplicable, his attraction to her runs hotter than it ever has for Sonia. His revulsion toward Ivona's fundamental underwhelmingness gets a lengthy--at times, tediously so--examination, as does the magnetism that pulls him to her and his own fiery self-hatred. Ego, passion, and deception run wild, but the novel's strength is found in the characters Stamm has created: powerfully imperfect, sometimes despicable, horribly conflicted, and always believable far beyond the archetypes that too often pop up in novels of marital ennui.
650		0	_aMarried people _x--Fiction
650			_aHusband and wife - _vFiction
650		4	_aTriangles (Interpersonal relations) _v--Fiction
655		0	_aPsychological fiction.
700	1		_aHofmann, Michael, 1957-
942			_cMO
999			_c261875 _d261875