Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to mak
e a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he wo
n't touch in case it compromises his art. She in turn is never quite certain of
what is expected of her.
All she knows is that everyone else seems, somehow,
happier. In this magnificent novel, at once bitterly sad and achingly funny, Ric
hard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme chronicler of the American Drea
m and its casualties.
