Adultery | Adultery
Jan.23.2008
Friendless and reclusive, Alex Blue commutes two hours each way to a job that serves mainly as a place to bide time, until one day she meets the wealthy, worldly--and married--owner of a high-concept Bay Area lifestyle company. Meanwhile, the melancholy and closeted Morton Levi, yearning for a...
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Jan.23.2008
Prompted by a mysterious letter, aging, solitary Annie Freed recalls what happened to "the tribe": a group of young, freewheeling bohemians who found themselves slowly taking root during the 1970s in an idyllic Northern California river town.
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Jan.11.2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 7, 2003 - Hal Jacobs
Is it worse to lose your sister or your husband? That's the question Maryanne Stahl poses in The Opposite Shore (New American Library, $12.95 paperback) after a 40-some-thing woman discovers her husband and sister locked in a kiss on...
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Jan.05.2008
A story of love, lust, and pest control set against the changing seasons of San Francisco.
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Dec.27.2007
A towering figure in American literature, Norman Mailer has in recent years reached a new level of accessibility and power. His last novel, The Castle in the Forest, revealed fascinating ideas about faith and the nature of good and evil. Now Mailer offers his concept of the nature of God. His...
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Dec.17.2007
The Sex and the City columnist for the New York Observer documents the social scene of modern-day Manhattan. The reader gets an introduction to “Modelizers,” the men who only have eyes for models, as well as a more common species, the “Toxic Bachelor.” Reading like a society novel gone downtown and...
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Dec.17.2007
Janey Wilcox is a fabulous model in her early thirties living in New York City and playing in the summertime in the Hamptons. At the beginning of every summer Janey attaches herself to a rich and powerful man who happens to have real estate in the Hamptons. That way Janie can assure herself of a...
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Dec.17.2007
Galilee is Clive Barker's horrific version of a trashy nighttime soap opera (think Dynasty in particular). In a surprisingly romantic tale, a beautiful woman marries into a rich family—and discovers once and for all that money most certainly does not buy happiness.
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Dec.13.2007
The notion of the other woman is nothing new. It’s easy to call her names – jezebel, home wrecker, and bitch. Yet she’s actually our mother, daughter, sister, best friend, grandmother or aunt. In THE OTHER WOMAN: Twenty-one Wives, Lovers, and Others Talk Openly About Sex, Deception, Love, and...
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