They are a super couple for the same reason I mentioned above – their romance was doomed and had long-lasting repercussions, but they are also only (most likely) a super couple to me. When I look back at my own favorite novels – romance or otherwise – only one other couple sticks out as being a super couple. And we all know how Gone With the Wind ends. What do these couples share in common? They are doomed, of course, which makes an HEA impossible. Romeo and Juliet, Anna Karenina and Vronsky, Dr Zhivago and Lara.
I can’t help but think of super couples and tragedy in the same light.
Like Jen, I have a hard time thinking of romance novel super couples, partly because of that epic quality she mentioned in regards to many of the couples she picked. Jennifer Schendel’s segment on Super Couples in the May 1st ATBF intrigued me.
Super Couples (Anne Marble, with an introduction by LLB)
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