| In the third season ot his life, " wearingmortality as he might a smile with a cheeknumbed by Novocaine," MatthewRogerson begins his forty-seventh sum-mer. Husband and fathcr of old-fash-ioned morality, humanities professor oldubious distinction, a beleaguered soulwith a painful prostatc condition, he sur-veys the broad scene of his life and findsit--wanting. Rogerson s wife Marge has gone hackto school and acquired a threateninglyindependent mien; now she wants tospend the summer on a lake in Wiscon-sin, and Rogerson doesn t want to go. Hisurologist, Heep, tells him he ought to becircumcised, so Rogerson decides tospend the summer at home, to nurse hisaltered manhood. Enter Sylvia Wood, the daring youngprofessor on the flvin~ ten-speed, who ll |
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