From Publishers Weekly
A drunken quarrel over suspected infidelity provokes a brawl and the fatal injury of a food writer. According to PW , this is "a zippy story about successful lives dramatically altered by one sudden and inexplicable lapse of judgment."
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Quite a departure for Oates, this thriller is set in an affluent neighborhood on the Hudson. Ian McCullough is a researcher at a social science think tank, long married to the elegant Glynnis, who entertains beautifully and writes trendy cookbooks. Glynnis also dabbles in people, taking up with struggling artists and the like for short spells. Such a case is Sigrid Hunt, a dancer whose troubled life leads her to seek help from Ian when Glynnis is no longer interested. Glynnis eventually comes to suspect something's up between Ian and Sigrid (it isn't), and in a drunken argument Ian shoves his wife through their plate glass wallor did she fall? An absorbing, well-told story full of suspense. Ann H. Fisher, Radford P.L., Va.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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