Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist past his prime but squiringaround a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. Hisformer w... » 

Adam Weller is a moderately successful novelist past his prime but squiringaround a much younger woman and still longing for greater fame and glory. Hisformer wife Eleanor is unhappily playing the role of the overweightdiscarded woman. Their daughter Maud has just begun a frankly sexual affairthat unexpectedly becomes lifechanging. Into each of these lives the pastintrudes in a way that will test them to their core. With perfect pitch and arare empathy Brian Morton is equally adept at portraying the life of the mindand how it plays out in the world brilliantly tracing the border between honorand violation. Here Morton tells his strongest story yeta story about lovefriendship literary treachery and what each of us owes to the past. «