High Infidelity: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery By Some Of Our Best Contemporary Authors - Hardcover

Mcnally, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688151744 ISBN 13: 9780688151744

Publisher: William Morrow, 1997

Synopsis

An anthology of stories that share the common theme of adultery includes works by such well-known authors as John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Ethan Canin, Russell Banks, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Russell Banks, and Bharati Mukherjee.

About this title

From Booklist:

Adultery has long shadowed marriage and has long fascinated writers and readers alike for obvious reasons. Forbidden love affairs are full of romance, lust, guilt, danger, and ecstasy. What with one complication after another, adultery generates complexity of emotion, thought, and circumstance, not to mention obsession. This collision of passions and abandonment of reason has inspired writers to create tragedies and comedies, melodrama and satire, cliches and wholly unexpected revelations, and the full range of these interpretations is found in this provocative anthology. Editor McNally has chosen stories that portray standard affairs between intelligent adults, an unsettling liaison between a 41-year-old man and a 14-year-old girl, true love between previously heterosexual women, and an imaginative take on two historical figures. The two dozen authors include Margaret Atwood, John Updike, David Huddle, Mary Swick, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ethan Canin, Bharati Mukherjee, and Richard Russo. Donna Seaman

Review:

Using adultery as a common thread, editor McNally gathers over twenty stories by both well-known and new writers. This literary collection reveals affairs which transform all involved, charting acts of love, lust, and revenge alike. Updike and others contribute to a unique coverage. -- Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0688151744
• ISBN 13: 9780688151744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320