FREE: Like New - The Full Catastrophe By David Carkeet

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Winner of the New York Times Notable Book Award (1990)

Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn't know how marriage works. In fact he is strangely hostile to the institution. So Cook is naturally uneasy about his new job with the Pillow Agency, a St. Louis firm specializing in "the linguistically troubled marriage." His assignment is to move in with Dan and Beth Wilson, a prosperous suburban couple with an unprosperous relationship, to analyze their verbal problems and to help them - if he can. As Cook catalogs the Wilsons' missed signs and mixed signals, he becomes increasingly, unscientifically involved. What emerges is an insightful and hilarious dissection of a modern marriage. "With humor and insight, Mr. Carkeet's fourth novel addresses the commonest of social diseases - a failing marriage - with the least likely of therapies: a live-in linguist" - The New York Times Book Review

"A comic masterpiece. . .It ought to become one of the best-loved novels of the year" - Kansas City Star

"The Full Catastrophe is the funniest book I have read in five and a half years" - The Los Angeles Times Book Review