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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Whether or not by design, Cheever here delivers her male and female characters in pairs, as though one were the ideal and the other the flawed human being. Oddly enough, it is these latter who are the focus of the story, suggesting that the author's sympathy lies with weak rather than admirable personalities. Bored with her lawyer husband, journalist Kate Weiss longs for a love affair. When she meets Macklin Rily, a humane, dedicated but emotionally volatile oncologist at a prestigious Manhattan hospital where her mother is being treated for cancer, she is determined to seduce him. But Macklin is also involved with Ann Lacey, the daughter of another cancer patient, a double breach of ethical conduct. Highpowered but charming businesswoman Ann is all the things that flyaway Kate, foolishly romantic and immature, is not. Kate comes off second best in the competition, but at least she belatedly realizes ``I don't know what I want; that's the trouble.'' Meanwhile, Macklin's troubled behavior has been contrasted with that of his counterpart, compassionate but highly efficient surgeon Peter Mallory. Her third novel (after Cage; she also wrote the nonfiction Home Before Dark demonstrates Cheever's increasing ability to manage plot and and characters. If the ending is somewhat disappointing, she has nonetheless touched on some timely and involving issues, while capturing the essence of hospital life and the heartbreaking limits of medical science. Troll Book Club main selection. (May 14)
Library Journal
Kate Weiss, whose marriage seems stagnant, is susceptible to the attentions of the oncologist who's treating her mother. And Dr. Macklin Riley, newly separated from his wife, is under pressure to do more research and to remain detached from his patients and their families. She wants someone to protect and take care of her; he wants respite from the disease he spends his life fighting. Passion flickers briefly in this slim slice of Upper East Side Manhattan life, but Cheever's cool, capable prose is more affecting when focusing on dying cancer patients than when following her central characters as they drift along, discontented and indecisive. Cheever is the author of three previous novels and the well-received memoir Home Before Dark. Her literary skills are inadequately used in this diappointingly thin novel. Michele Leber, Fairfax Cty. P.L., Va.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780517564370
  • Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 5/28/1987
  • Edition description: 1st Edition
  • Pages: 266

Meet the Author

Susan Cheever
Susan Cheever

Susan Cheever is the bestselling author of eleven previous books, including five novels and the memoirs Note Found in a Bottle and Home Before Dark. Her work has been nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Boston Globe Winship Medal. She is a Guggenheim Fellow, a member of the Corporation of Yaddo, and a member of the Author's Guild Council. She writes a weekly column for Newsday and teaches in the Bennington College M.F.A. program. She lives in New York City with her family.

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