Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Buck, Pearl S. frey50

Portrait of a marriage - Chicago People Book Club 1945 - 290 p.

Surely no two could have seemed less suited than he and Ruth - he a sensitive artist, son of a rich and proud family, widely traveled, cosmopolitan, and she the unlettered daughter of a farmer. She could never come into his world, and he came into hers-- giving up, for their deep love, his family and fame and almost all else that he had known. Yet at the end of nearly fifty years he could think, with gratitude to her, how rich his life had been, how little he had lost to gain happines.

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