| Adultery Contributor(s): DeSalvo, Louise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807062251 ISBN-13: 9780807062258 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2000 Annotation: Louise DeSalvo risks all, in the company of Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, and Madam Recamier. By filtering the story of her own husband's affair through other's stories, she revels in the always exciting fantasy and tells from the usually painful reality of adultery. The conclusions she draws, and the balance she finds in her marriage and in others, make ADULTERY a fun, poignant, and compassionate book. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Human Sexuality (see Also Social Science - Human Sexuality) - Literary Criticism |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 4.47" W x 6.95" (0.35 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Just after Louise DeSalvo gave birth to her first child, her husband confessed that he was having an affair. After surviving the crisis in her marriage, she began to read and write about adultery to explore the question of why people cheat. The result is this fun and compassionate book that draws upon the lives and works of literary figures such as Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and Henry Miller to offer a transforming understanding of infidelity and marriage. |