Say Yes | Husband and Wife Relations
In the following
essay, Korb discusses how well the husband and wife
truly know each other.
In writing an introduction to the short story collection Matters of Life and Death, Tobias Wolff, in his role as the editor, attempted to explain why he chose the stories for inclusion: ‘‘They [these writers] speak to us without flippancy, about things that matter. They write about what happens between men and women, parents and children. They write about fear of death, fear of life, the feelings that bring people together and force them apart, the costs of intimacy. They remind us that our house is built on sand. They are, every one of them, interested in what it means to be...
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