Book description (from the back cover):
Frederick Barthelme's most powerful novel to date, Two Against One is the portrait of a marriage gone askew. On Edward's fortieth birthday, his estranged wife, Elise, appears unannounced at the door, triggering a series of events that will involve the couple in a bizarre triangle and lay open thte workings of a fifteen-year marriage. Set against the suburban new South that Barthelme has made peculiarly his own, Two Against One is a wry, revealing comedy about the nature of modern love, divorce, and reconciliation, by a mster storyteller who has "shown us the chaos of life, and from it, lifted an order we've not seen before" (San Francisco Chronicle).
Frederick Barthelme's most powerful novel to date, Two Against One is the portrait of a marriage gone askew. On Edward's fortieth birthday, his estranged wife, Elise, appears unannounced at the door, triggering a series of events that will involve the couple in a bizarre triangle and lay open thte workings of a fifteen-year marriage. Set against the suburban new South that Barthelme has made peculiarly his own, Two Against One is a wry, revealing comedy about the nature of modern love, divorce, and reconciliation, by a mster storyteller who has "shown us the chaos of life, and from it, lifted an order we've not seen before" (San Francisco Chronicle).
