Paul Michael Anderson
That's...not a question I expected? All right, then. So.
A lot of what I read falls under the umbrella of people breaking under pressure and one of the the elements of that is the strain put onto couples. The couples I can recall off the top of my head are terrible ones--Jack and Wendy Torrance in THE SHINING--or have already split from one another by the time the story begins. In my own writing, I think I've had one couple that, for the duration of the story, were together and stayed together ("All That You Leave Behind", which appeared first in the anthology LOST SIGNALS and, later, my own collection BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN).
The best example I have--I guess--is Rob and Laura from Nick Hornby's HIGH FIDELITY. In that book, if nowhere else in my collection, a relationship is front and center and, to the teen and twenty-something I was when I read and re-read the book, it gives the most honest overview of the ups and downs and ridiculousness of a relationship--particularly a relationship where one of the members is a hopeless pop culture addict.
So, Rob and Laura. HIGH FIDELITY.
(And, after I post this answer, I'll probably think of, like, 5 more.)
A lot of what I read falls under the umbrella of people breaking under pressure and one of the the elements of that is the strain put onto couples. The couples I can recall off the top of my head are terrible ones--Jack and Wendy Torrance in THE SHINING--or have already split from one another by the time the story begins. In my own writing, I think I've had one couple that, for the duration of the story, were together and stayed together ("All That You Leave Behind", which appeared first in the anthology LOST SIGNALS and, later, my own collection BONES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN).
The best example I have--I guess--is Rob and Laura from Nick Hornby's HIGH FIDELITY. In that book, if nowhere else in my collection, a relationship is front and center and, to the teen and twenty-something I was when I read and re-read the book, it gives the most honest overview of the ups and downs and ridiculousness of a relationship--particularly a relationship where one of the members is a hopeless pop culture addict.
So, Rob and Laura. HIGH FIDELITY.
(And, after I post this answer, I'll probably think of, like, 5 more.)
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