The Last Weekend (35 page)

In all matrimonial associations there is, I believe, one constant factor — a desire to deceive the person with whom one lives as to some weak spot in one’s character or in one’s career. For it is intolerable to live constantly with one human being who perceives one’s small meannesses. It is really death to do so.

Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier

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The Last Weekend
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2010
by Blake Morrison.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Morrison, Blake
The last weekend / Blake Morrison.
ISBN 978-1-55468-871-5
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PR6063.072L38 2011     823’.914    C2010-906993-5

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