Best Friends (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Berger
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2003
- Setting: A small town somewhere in the eastern United States
- Principal Characters: Roy Courtright, Sam Grandy, Kristin Grandy, Francine Holbrook, Margaret Forsythe
- Genres: Long fiction, Novel
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Wives, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Marriage, Twenty-first century, Friendship, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Honesty, Adultery, Loyalty, Single people, Suburban life, Morality or morals, Honor
- Locales: East (U.S.)
Roy Courtright and Sam Grandy have known each other more than twenty years, growing up in the same town, attending the same prep school, and going away to the same college. When Sam’s father died, Roy stepped in to offer paternal influence, and in most ways the two men appear to fit the old maxim of opposites attracting. Sam is happily married and devoted to his wife; Roy has remained a bachelor and earned a reputation as a philanderer. Sam is puzzled by Roy’s sexual flightiness, and Roy cannot imagine settling down with anyone for any length of time.
Roy, in fact, decides to...
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