Objects Of Desire A Portrait of Love and Marriage

by Graves, Ralph

• ISBN13: 9780740740084
• ISBN10: 0740740083
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-22
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Summary

This is a love story, told in a completely different way. Eleanor MacKenzie, just graduated from Barnard, and Ralph Graves, just graduated from Harvard, met as brand-new researchers at Life magazine in September 1948. They soon married other people, but the two couples then became closest friends. After seven years of that closeness, Eleanor and Ralph realized that they were profoundly in love. Both went through bitter and punitive divorces to get to each other. It was worth it. They have now been married for 45 years. This book is the story of their love and marriage, told through the myriad objects that have played a significant role in that story. Gifts, homes, cars, painting, books, furniture, jewelry, clothes--all are invested with a deeply emotional value that grew out of what those objects of desire meant to these two people. But the story does not apply only to these two particular people. As Ralph Graves says about these objects of desire, "They have resonance. Each of us, in every love story, in every marriage, can name special objects that carry that

Table of Contents

THE BUCKLE	1	(4)
THE BEGINNING	5	(5)
THE APARTMENT	10	(11)
THE MUSTANG	21	(8)
THE GREAT WHITE COW	29	(15)
THE HOUSE	44	(9)
THE POOL	53	(11)
THE CLOCK	64	(13)
THE BRACELET	77	(11)
THE SEA SERPENT	88	(7)
THE ZOBELS	95	(13)
THE ROCK MENAGERIE	108	(3)
THE CALLAS PHOTOGRAPH	111	(8)
THE SLIDES	119	(5)
THE LEATHER BOOKS	124	(8)
THE NINE-FOOT TABLE	132	(21)
THE TANSU	153	(8)
THE BEAM	161	(7)
THE CASSOULET	168	(11)
THE WINE RACK	179	(8)
THE RESTAURANT	187	(9)
THE PUPPY	196	(14)
THE SUIT AND THE JACKET	210	(14)
THE BUCKLE - AGAIN	224