Michael Beard, Nobel Prize winner, fifty something years old, finds himself in the final stretch of his fifth marriage. When Patrice, his fifth wife, nineteen years his junior, discovers that he has cheated on her, she reacts with surprising euphoria, and before the week is out she has begun a relationship with the builder who is restoring the house. Beard suffers desperately at the hands of the beautiful Patrice, and when one night, Tom Aldous, one of his young interns, takes Beard home and meets his wife, the story ...
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Michael Beard, Nobel Prize winner, fifty something years old, finds himself in the final stretch of his fifth marriage. When Patrice, his fifth wife, nineteen years his junior, discovers that he has cheated on her, she reacts with surprising euphoria, and before the week is out she has begun a relationship with the builder who is restoring the house. Beard suffers desperately at the hands of the beautiful Patrice, and when one night, Tom Aldous, one of his young interns, takes Beard home and meets his wife, the story becomes a black comedy of mix ups and intrigue in the purest style of Hitchcock, with corpse included
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