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And it also worked for DeSalvo herself--although she is not an adulterer, but an "adultery survivor" who must come to terms with her fantasies about adultery in order to heal her marriage. Her husband was a young medical resident when he had the affair that changed her life; DeSalvo was surprised to find that he did not want to leave her and their infant son but hoped instead to keep the family together. Before DeSalvo could let herself be fully present again in the marriage, however, she had to put the ghosts to rest. It's hardly surprising that, as a creative-writing professor (and the author of Writing as a Way of Healing), she does so by taking pen in hand to reconstruct the affair in her imagination, using writers like Colette, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Alfred Kinsey as her guides and revealing something frequently overlooked in our contemporary model of infidelity: adultery is often a folie à trois, not merely deux. --Patrizia DiLucchio
"What does it matter if Louise DeSalvo is pious or promiscuous? She lays her hands on the reader. She seduces. I'm convinced—or is it healed?"—Mirabella
"DeSalvo's moving literary exploration is great preparation for her real work: resolving the betrayal in her own marriage."—Rebecca Miller, Library Journal
"Tart and entertaining."
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