Privileged Conversation - Softcover

Evan Hunter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340657642 ISBN 13: 9780340657645

Publisher: CORONET BOOKS, 1996

Synopsis

Physical description: 326 p. ; 18 cm. Summary: A psychiatrist saves a young woman from a mugging in New York's Central Park and a relationship develops. At first David Chapman only indulges in fantasies, but after seeing the woman dance in a musical, he embarks on an affair. It's a complicated business because he lives in another town and has a family. When the woman becomes the target of a stalker, things become even more complicated. Subject: Man-woman relationships - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. Psychiatrists - New York (State) - New York - Fiction. American fiction - 20th century. New York (N.Y.) - Fiction. Modern fiction FICTION / General. Genre: Fiction. Romantic suspense fiction. Romantic suspense novels.

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From the Back Cover

She is a Broadway dancer, exquisite and mercurial. He is a dedicated psychiatrist, happily married to a beautiful woman, the father of two lovely children vacationing with their mother on Martha's Vineyard. "Good morning, sir", she said, as she passed David Chapman on a sunny June day in Central Park. Moments later, she was locked in mortal combat with a mugger, and David came to her rescue... They tell each other some truths, but only some. They know each other's mysteries, but only some. They slip into a realm of sensual deception and imminent danger... For who is Kate Duggan really, the woman who makes sexual fantasies come true? And who is David Chapman, the doctor who spends his day with other people's neuroses, guilt, and lies? Now, in the heat of a New York City summer, they will learn everything - when a stalker turns their mad lust into a murderous affair.

From Publishers Weekly

The blurred border between fantasy and obsession is explored in this latest from Hunter (Criminal Conversation and, as Ed McBain, the 87th Precinct novels), who keeps readers off-balance throughout. When happily married psychiatrist David Chapman rescues dancer Kate Duggan during a robbery in Central Park, the chance encounter inspires a sexual fantasy that has disturbing echoes in the revelations of some of his more troubled patients. It's only after David sees Kate dancing the part of Victoria in a performance of Cats that the fantasy is realized. During the course of a summer affair that becomes obsessive, the psychiatrist alternates weekends with his wife and family on Martha's Vineyard with wild evenings in the city with a woman he knows little about. Midway into the novel, the narrative switches from David's to Kate's point of view, as an admirer begins to stalk her. Suddenly, the psychiatrist's mysterious temptress becomes a very real woman in trouble. And there is yet another switch at novel's end, a sucker punch that will daze readers. Consummate craftsman Hunter invests this disquieting yarn with the easy intelligence and dark feel of a good Hitchcock film-plus a creepy resonance all its own. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: CORONET BOOKS
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0340657642
• ISBN 13: 9780340657645
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320