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Love and Infatuation: Three Novellas
A man falls in love with a married woman who does not reciprocate his affections. A married writer finds trouble at the local pub. A confirmed single man finds his cherished bachelor life disrupted by love. Three short novels about the age-old conflicts in infatuation, love, romance, sex, and betrayal. Christopher Anderson is the author of two political science books, What Happened to the Love How the Boomers Blew It and Economy and How Capitalism Brought Us to the Brink. He is the author of two other novels, Alki and The Revolutionists.
276 pages, Paperback
Published January 28, 2021
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April 5, 2021These three short novels display the intoxicating joy of infatuations, the depth of love, and the inevitable despair of heartbreak.
In the first story, "Jeff" is infatuated with "Ann," a woman with whom he works. The problem here is that she is married. They have sex once, and he thinks he is in love. But she says she does not love him. They continue the affair, but she never accepts the fact that she loves him, with tragic consequences.
In the second story, "The Beveridge Place," Denis and Jennifer are married but have an open relationship. As always with these arrangements, it is not so ideal and as simple. as it would seem.
In the third, "Chaos Theory," a confirmed bachelor finds himself in love, which disrupts his ideal pattern of occasional assignations. When she finds out he has a regular woman he meets on occasion, the situation becomes complicated, and is reversed.
I loved this book. While perhaps not original in its portrayal of relationships, the prose is simple, concise and it flows. It reminds me a bit of Raymond Carver or John Cheever
In the first story, "Jeff" is infatuated with "Ann," a woman with whom he works. The problem here is that she is married. They have sex once, and he thinks he is in love. But she says she does not love him. They continue the affair, but she never accepts the fact that she loves him, with tragic consequences.
In the second story, "The Beveridge Place," Denis and Jennifer are married but have an open relationship. As always with these arrangements, it is not so ideal and as simple. as it would seem.
In the third, "Chaos Theory," a confirmed bachelor finds himself in love, which disrupts his ideal pattern of occasional assignations. When she finds out he has a regular woman he meets on occasion, the situation becomes complicated, and is reversed.
I loved this book. While perhaps not original in its portrayal of relationships, the prose is simple, concise and it flows. It reminds me a bit of Raymond Carver or John Cheever
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