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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 .
Harcourt, $25 (361pp) ISBN 978-0-15-101192-6. While the story of two broken couples—one by infidelity, one by tragedy—contains a number of maudlin moments, this polished novel's touchy-feely...
Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist, past his prime, but squiring around a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. 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 becomes life-changing.
Jan 17, 2017 · To say nothing of what it takes to open yourself up as deeply as possible to make the film and then spend eight months, 12 hours a day, six days a week in the editing room finding its rhythms and its center and its ultimate truth.
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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Open main menu. Home Reading ... Breakable You Brian Morton. 361 pages • first pub 2006 ISBN/UID: 9780151011926. Format: Hardcover. Language: English. Publisher: ...
Oct 1, 2007 · This packed novel about the vagaries of love and grief takes place in a New York straight out of Woody Allen: enormous apartments abound, and girls in bars say things like "Paul Auster makes me wet." Adam Weller, an aging, still handsome Jewish novelist, has recently left his wife, a psychologist.
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