A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO ADULTERY - Softcover

Carol Clewlow

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9780140116328: A WOMAN'S GUIDE TO ADULTERY

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014011632X ISBN 13: 9780140116328

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

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From Library Journal: The moral of this cool, ironic commentary on adultery is clear: Affairs with married men cause pain for women. Narrator Rose, 38, regrets the loss of honor involved in such affairs, empathizes with the wives, and generally disapproves of adultery, at the same time that she practices it. Her three close friends are similarly involved. What is enduring here are female friendships, as the men come and go. As a last resort, spent affairs may be translated into fiction, a course taken by Rose after she succumbs to love with her married tutor. The English academic setting intensifies the detached intellectual tone used for a subject of such potential passion and pain, and this is ultimately too clever to be engaging. Literary Guild featured alternate. - Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va. -- Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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About the Author:

Carol Clewlow was a journalist for twenty years in the UK and the Far East. She published her highly acclaimed first novel, KEEPING THE FAITH, in 1988. She lives on Tyneside.

From Publishers Weekly:

Initially a bit off-putting because of the narrator's deadpan, sardonic voice, this first novel becomes an absorbing chronicle of modern sexual mores as it illuminateswith a new twistthe age-old relationship between the sexes. Rose, the narrator, is one of a group of English academics and professionals in a university community, all of whom are intimately connected in a network of adulterous affairs. Although at first disapproving of extramarital relationships, Rose becomes vulnerable when she begins an affair with her tutor, Paul, who is married to Monica, who once had an affair with David, who is now involved with Jennifer . . . As Rose describes the liaisons and break-ups among her friends, she comes to some depressing conclusions: the only good men are already married, and they think philandering is their birthright; womenboth the wronged and the guiltydelude themselves about the men they love. New to this generation, however, is the higher proportion of women engaging in extramarital affairs, and their sense of themselves in that role: "Once we had to be weak to be loved. Now we have to be strong." Wry, witty, intelligent, occasionally hilarious and finally moving, this novel carries an emotional wallop. 50,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo; Literary Guild featured alternate.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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