![]() ![]() She begins a desultory affair with a 37-year-old engineer whose passions tend toward video games and keeping his house pathologically clean. In the second story, we follow Marla, a physically unprepossessing bank teller (yes, she works at the same bank as Laura’s lover) who feels her life slipping away from her. Although occasionally picking up and hefting a piece of lead pipe, Mark ultimately finds himself powerless to change the circumstances of his life. ![]() In the first narrative, we meet hapless Mark Welch, who’s recently found out his wife, Laura, is having an affair with a banker. Instead, he chronicles what’s going on with sympathy but without any sense that he needs to rescue them. To Dubus’ credit, he doesn’t feel he has to solve their personal problems and the intricate twists of their relationships. ![]() Dubus anatomizes personal-especially sexual-relationships brilliantly in these loosely concatenated novellas.Īt the center of the characters’ world are the small, economically depressed towns in Massachusetts where waiters, waitresses, bartenders and bankers live and move and have their being. ![]()
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