
Young newly married & intensely ambitious Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer His adoring wife Lucy has a private fortune that he won'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 & achingly funny Richard Yates again shows himself to be the supreme chronicler of the American Dream & its casualties