Desperate characters by Fox Paula

Author:Fox, Paula
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: City and town life, Married women, Psychological fiction, Domestic fiction
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton
Published: 1999-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

dreadfully tired. I diink his wife is driving him into the ground.'*

"I didn't know he was married again," Sophie said.

"He married a graduate student of his last spring, a dull, dull girl who's convinced herself she's a creature of unbridled lust. That's what he tells me, anyhow. Will you have gin or whisky?"

"Gin."

"He tells me a great deal more than I want to hear about that side of things. Do you want vermouth or tonic or what? He does hke to treat me like his charlady instead of his first bride. He's like most of them though—passionate selflessness until he jumps on you like the old monkey he is."

"Tonic. Why don't you tell him to keep it to himself?"

"That would hurt his feelings. He says she fooled him by writing a very good thesis on Henry James . . . some peculiar angle on his relationship to his brother ... I don't know. He was lavish in his praise—I'll say that for him, he's generous that way—and the next thing he knew she was swearing there was more between them than a silly old thesis about silly old Henry. He's always been a brain lover, swears he wouldn't touch a woman unless she had a stylish brain. Well, she's absolutely dippy. He hates to go home at night, hides out in the university library. She's always waiting for him behind the door, stark naked, liberated from intellectual concerns, his beast, she calls herself. I met them in the lobby of a theater one evening and she sulked for days, Leon tells me. Sulked over me!" She sniffed. "Sometimes I think there's a goat quartered in this kitchen. Come on, let's get out of here."

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