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A casual fling between Jennifer, a single freelance writer, and Richard, a married lawyer, turns into a disruption of Jennifer's solitary peace when Richard leaves his wife, moves in with Jennifer, and brings his family problems with him
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An affair with a married man lands self-sufficient, sophisticated 26-year-old Jennifer in the sticky position of "the other woman"; but the racy image that label conjures up is hardly sustained when her lover Richard leaves his wife. The new life they settle into is one of such determined domesticity that it's hardly surprising the central character in this slender first novel finds it all somewhat dull. Jennifer's primary sentiment seems to be ambivalence: toward Richard and the role he plays in her life, and toward his two demanding boys, five-year-old Benjamin and the baby David. Only Ruth Ann, the scornful, soon to be ex-wife, draws any passion from Jennifer, as she pricks the younger woman with the sharp knife of her measured contempt. The elements of the contemporary portrait Lesser has drawn are timely and significant, and may be recognizable to many. Yet her spare prose, while competent, makes everything rather colorless. In the end, Jennifer seems no closer to an understanding of her own emotional core than she did in the beginning.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0671648810
- ISBN 13 9780671648817
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages236
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