VINTAGE CLASSICS : LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP PB – ALISON LURIE

"<p><b> A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment…steady uninterrupted delight <i>Sunday Telegraph</i></b><br /><br />Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine. Her husband, a dull, hard-working lecturer, suspecting everyone but the right man, sends himself half mad with jealousy. The shocking, unforeseen consequences of their affair shatter Emmy s most cherished delusions about friendship, romance, and the ties that bind.<br /><br /> Lurie is and really is, different. She writes with great elegance, as frostily clear as the climate she describes; and with sharp intelligence piercing through every sentence. She is very funny as well <i>Observer</i></p>"