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Breakable You is the fourth novel written by American author Brian Morton. It was published in 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. The book was made into a 2017 film starring Holly Hunter, Tony Shalhoub and Alfred Molina.
Jan 1, 2006 · Morton has in Breakable You, written a love story. When Eleanor Weller, a therapist, finds out her husband of 30 odd years, Adam, a well known but nearly forgotten writer, is cheating on her, she makes him leave.
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Oct 1, 2007 · With perfect pitch and a rare empathy, Brian Morton is equally adept at portraying the life of the mind and how it plays out in the world, brilliantly tracing the border between honor and violation. Here Morton tells his strongest story yet—a story about love, friendship, literary treachery, and what each of us owes to the past.
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Sep 5, 2006 · Petty, egocentric and devious, he has left his wife, Eleanor, for a beautiful, ambitious younger woman, Thea. Through a series of improbable events, he acquires a late rival's long-lost, unpublished manuscript, a masterpiece which he appropriates and sells as his own, in hopes of reviving his flagging career.
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Sep 5, 2006 · BREAKABLE YOU. by Brian Morton ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 5, 2006. The pressures of the examined life reshape priorities and relationships among an expanding and contracting extended family of urban intellectuals.
His former wife, Eleanor, is unhappily playing the role of the overweight, discarded woman. Their daughter Maud has just begun a frankly sexual affair that unexpectedly...
Oct 1, 2007 · Breakable You by Brian Morton (ebook) - Apple Books. A Novel. Brian Morton. 4.0 • 2 Ratings. $11.99. Publisher Description. “A literary theft, a death and the sparking of desire make for a tumultuous year in the lives of four New Yorkers . . . [a] polished, affecting novel.” —People.
