![]() He’s the needy exploiter, the cynic, the impotent lover of women and of words… Bingham’s Winn in unusual in that he possesses an extraordinary degree of insight into his own behavior…” “We’ve encountered men like Shelby Winn on campus, at parties, in the pages of John Updike and Phillip Roth, and in bed. The novel’s strength is the quiet authority with which Bingham writes, making her story disturbing, and disturbingly real. ![]() Bingham (Matron of Honor) charts Colby’s descent from lonely-but-likable to creepy-and-dangerous with sharp insights about the many forms that possessiveness takes, from the dashed expectations of new lovers (and new fathers) to the ramifications of biology as destiny. In fact, Colby has a violent streak of his own, which becomes more and more apparent as he watches Ann Lee rehearse her play and develop a relationship with Martha Weekly. ![]()
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