
About this book
First published in 1970 to great acclaim, this novel stands as one of the most dazzling and rigorous examples of the storyteller's craft in postwar American literature--a novel that, according to Irving Howe, ranks with "Billy Budd" and "The Great Gatsby".
- Fiction
- Married women
- City and town life
- Fiction, general
- New york (n.y.), fiction
- Psychological fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Literature











