| In this novcl oftwisted love, DyanSheldon fractures the fairy tale of a familylife and holds up a dark and polished mir-ror to our own habits of being and loving. Victim of Love is set in a bad marriageon the Upper West Side of Manhattan.Paul Sutcliffe, 38, is a tenured professoron the vergc, hc thinks, of making a litcr-ary name for himself.Good-looking, andcharming when it suits him, he is theshining center ofa gratifying little uni-vcrsc: two lovcrs, long-standing Janetand bright young Liz; two children,Patsv and David, who thinks the worldof him; a dying mother in the Bronx whoesteems him somewhat less; and aboveall, a dew)ted wife, Linda, who tends tothe exigcncics ofthc houschold and "ful-fills" herself, as if she had the time, with apublishing job. Paul Sutcliffe asserts abelief in love (and in just about anythingthat might persuadc the world of his sen-sitivity), and up to now his world hascircled around him, gullibly. But Linda Sutcliffe s own orbit aroundher husband has become a bit erratic oflate. Finding the mantlc of her devotionfrayed and discovering Paul s infidelity,shc isn t sure whcthcr it s forgivcncss orrevenge she wants. She takes a lover ofher own, throws her husband out of thehouse, shoots for change. But what arehcr chanccs? What good will it do her? In a series of brillianth, articulatedsccncs, and with a narrativc voice that iswryly involvcd and scathingly ironic,Dvan Sheldon etches thcsc lives with acidand finds them grooved into patterns of |
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