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- In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and complex Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations.
- About the Author: SALLY RYDER BRADY, a writer, agent, teacher, and editor, is the author of a highly successful novel, Instar, an illustrated book of adult humor called Sweet Memories, and two books of non-fiction, A Yankee Christmas, Volumes I and II.
- 256 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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After Upton Brady died, his widow Sally began uncovering secrets. She discovered that her husband of 46 years had desired the love of other men. A year of mourning became for Sally a time to unravel the dark and unexpected web he had left behind.Book Synopsis
In the tradition of Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, comes a poignant memoir about a marriage that was as deep and strong as it was mysterious and complex
Upton and Sally Brady were a rare breed: cultivated and elegant, they lived a life of literary glamour and high expectations. Sally a debutante; Upton a classics major from Harvard, they met at the Boston Cotillion. He was articulate, witty, and worldly, and he danced like Fred Astaire. How could she resist? Despite raising four children on Upton's modest wage as the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly Press, theirs was a world of champagne, sailboats, private islands, famous writers, family rituals, and ice-cold martinis. They lived life on their terms. But as time wore on, Upton, the charming and brilliant husband, the inventive, beguiling partner, grew opinionated, cranky, controlling, and dangerous. When Upton died suddenly one evening in their Vermont cottage, Sally began uncovering secrets. As she went through his papers, she discovered that her husband of forty-six years had desired the love of other men. Her riveting, charismatic husband was not quite the man he appeared to be, and a year of mourning became for Sally a time to unravel the dark and unexpected web he had left behind. Hers is a moving and powerful story of coming to terms with what cannot be changed. It is also a story of great love.Review Quotes
"Her memoir is a form of therapy . . . There is much to admire in this tenderly told story."--"USA Today"
." . . well-written and moving . . . Though we as readers may be troubled by the certainty that Upton would have been horrified by his wife's public version of their story, it's to her credit that we feel as much compassion for his suffering as we do for hers."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Compelling."--"Entertainment Weekly"
"'It's not hard to identify my emotions. What's hard is filling in the gaps of a forty-six-year love affair, ' confesses Brady in her account of life with longtime Atlantic Monthly Press editor-in-chief Upton Birnie Brady. . . . Diagnosed by his therapist with narcissistic personality disorder, Upton, in Brady's view, is both superhero and deeply flawed man; her memoir is as searing and tender as the life she describes."--"Publishers Weekly""Brady's engrossing chronicle of how she faced both the facts and mysteries of her husband's concealed hom
About the Author
SALLY RYDER BRADY, a writer, agent, teacher, and editor, is the author of a highly successful novel, Instar, an illustrated book of adult humor called Sweet Memories, and two books of non-fiction, A Yankee Christmas, Volumes I and II.