John Updike: Twin Beds in Rome (1964)

Richard and Joan Maple's marriage is falling apart. Though both intensely desire separation, they continue to hold on to their broken relationship. So rather than get away from each other, they go away with each other-to Rome.

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Well. A quiet and very nice little story :)

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“Nice”? What a shallow assessment of the death of a marriage, the death of love.

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The world is elegiac”, not “elegaic”, and it has a long “i” sound in the penultimate syllable, a long “a” sound.

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Hello? No voice Director, and it’s obvious. The artist de Chirico has a hard “k” sound at the beginning, not “ch” as in chick.