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 This Week’s Fiction Book:
Breakable You
by Brian Morton
Adam
Weller is a
moderately
successful
novelist, past
his prime, but
squiring around
a much younger
woman and still
longing for
greater fame
and glory. His
former wife,
Eleanor, is
unhappily
playing the
role of the
overweight,
discarded
woman. Their
daughter Maud
has just begun
a frankly
sexual affair
that
unexpectedly
becomes
life-changing.
Into each of
these lives the
past intrudes
in a way that
will test them
to their core.
With perfect
pitch and a
rare empathy,
Brian Morton is
equally adept
at portraying
the life of the
mind and how it
plays out in
the world,
brilliantly
tracing the
border between
honor and
violation. Here
Morton tells
his strongest
story yet--a
story about
love,
friendship,
literary
treachery, and
what each of us
owes to the
past.
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