Kirjahaku

“A flawless novel of manners, women and love. . . .Not only consistently entertaining but a valid and incisive picture of how married women of that in-between generation—in their forties now, too young to have known the high-kicking ’20s, too old to be part of the ’60s revolt—are coming to terms with the new feminism. In this fine second novel, Cynthia Propper Seton seems on her way to becoming an American Doris Lessing—that mistress of self-exploring fiction—only softer voiced, less heavy-handed. . .the two of them half-sisters, you might say.” —Mary Ellin Barrett, Cosmopolitan

“Cynthia Propper Seton’s newest novel is a gem of a comedy. With delectable wit and glittering style, Seton examines the leisured urban upper-middle class, its guilts and self-deceptions, its integrity, poignant strivings, and resignation. . . .The author is a veritable gourmet chef of the language, whipping up verbal delights on every page.” —Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Saturday Review

“Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments—class, sex, age—is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph.” —Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times

A journalist overcomes dissatisfaction with her life when she writes a story on the outrageous lifestyle of her aunt