Book description
>In the months preceding the party, we learn something of their
double lives: the faces that each one exposes to their spouses and to
the world give little hint of their complex and secret tribulations. By
the time they arrive at the ball, each clutching his or her different
hopes and fears, we have become familiar with their unsmooth paths, and
shared many a humorous escapade or private tragedy with Rachel and
Thomas, Mary and Bill, Ursula and Martin, Frances and Toby, as well as
the alluring R. Cotterman and the only questing bachelor, Ralph.
Sophisticated, sympathetic, witty and razor-sharp in its observations of
the sub-text of married life, this is a wonderfully accomplished and
enjoyable novel which develops totally out of the characters it
creates.> >In the months preceding the party, we learn something
of their double lives: the faces that each one exposes to their spouses
and to the world give little hint of their complex and secret
tribulations. By the time they arrive at the ball, each clutching his or
her different hopes and fears, we have become familiar with their
unsmooth paths, and shared many a humorous escapade or private tragedy
with Rachel and Thomas, Mary and Bill, Ursula and Martin, Frances and
Toby, as well as the alluring R. Cotterman and the only questing
bachelor, Ralph.
Sophisticated, sympathetic, witty and razor-sharp in its observations of
the sub-text of married life, this is a wonderfully accomplished and
enjoyable novel which develops totally out of the characters it
creates.>
