Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2125733 in Books
• Published on: 1989-08
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 224 pages

From Publishers Weekly
This awkwardly written first novel explores the war between the sexes, heightened by vivid scenes of domestic violence. Justine, a young American ballet dancer, leaves her touring company and decamps to Oxford to be near Roy, her former philosopher professor. She is a sex junkie, turned on by Roy's sadistic violence. When Justine finds she is pregnant, they marry, Addie, their son, becomes the pivotal focus of their relationship. After Roy takes a position at Harvard, they move back to the States, but by then their marriage has further deteriorated. On vacation in the Caribbean, Justine falls in love with Moses, a simple local man for whom she abandons her family. Later, Justine, again pregnant, returns to Roy--whose eyes are filled with "passionate tenderness" at her homecoming, sparing the reader from a continuation of their emotionally charged saga.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Powerful love story
This is a powerful book, filled with intense passion and painful sexual experience. Justine, the narrator, searches for love in likely and unlikely places, all described in a prose style that is both clear and poetic. There is a strong sense of place - Oxford, Boston, the Caribbean - and an even stronger sense of the painful ties of women and men.