Writers and Partisans
A History of Literary Radicalism in America
Questo autore si muove tra storia e finzione, esplorando l'esperienza umana attraverso le proprie fascinazioni. Un'early carriera accademica si è concentrata sulla storia intellettuale e culturale americana, ma una disillusione riguardo ai vincoli della scrittura storica lo ha portato alla narrativa. Laddove la storia richiede prove e note a piè di pagina, la finzione offre la libertà di immaginare la vita interiore e le motivazioni dei personaggi. I suoi romanzi, spesso radicati nell'esperienza vissuta e nella memoria, approfondiscono temi diversi, da sguardi satirici sulla vita suburbana a narrazioni misteriose. Attraverso questo passaggio, l'autore trasforma magistralmente la realtà in narrazione fantasiosa.


A History of Literary Radicalism in America
Four couples discover how far each will go to escape the boredom and routine of their lives.Set in a suburb of Chicago in the 1950s, the story centers around four married couples. The men play golf together at the local country club, and the women play bridge every week. One man reads about the "key party" game in a magazine and shares it with his friends. The idea is that the women put their house keys in a hat, and the men select a key at random; the key each man draws determines which woman he'll have sex with that night.One night while all four couples are together celebrating one couple's anniversary and a lot of drinking is going on, the man suggests that they play the game. Surprisingly, the women agree. No one sleeps with anyone else's wife, but the whole incident causes a lot of friction in the group. Somehow, word gets out in the community about the key party, and all four couples are shunned.