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One Hand Waving Free
One Hand Waving Free
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Adultery fascinates endlessly, it's never out of the news, and almost always ends badly. That accounts for its steady readership in fact and fiction, but a novel that transforms the subject into a long lyrical poem of passionate love, complete with stunning erotic passages, and glowing philosophical insights, is the extreme rarity that Ellen Hofmann offers With One Hand Waving Free.
The main character, Marie, emerging from a hardscrabble, occasionally brutalized adolescence in the heyday of the sexual revolution, is drawn to Manny, the eventual love of her life, though he is both married and Puerto Rican, so unavailable to her. Marie then marries a supercilious college boy, but years later begins a decades-long affair with the same Manny, now a NY City cop.
Though she is on the exterior a model mom, Marie’s life becomes a casebook of the sufferings endured by cheaters: guilt, anxiety, a death wish, a foray into Pentecostal religion, and fruitless attempts to bring her affair to an end. Her frosty, humorless husband leaves her stuck even more.
This book is not mere beach reading. It can be savored on multiple levels — as a deeply moving personal drama, as a gloss on the predicaments of modern marriage, and as a series of prose poems, all illuminating the startling insights Marie brings forth. You will want to re-read it many, many times.
The main character, Marie, emerging from a hardscrabble, occasionally brutalized adolescence in the heyday of the sexual revolution, is drawn to Manny, the eventual love of her life, though he is both married and Puerto Rican, so unavailable to her. Marie then marries a supercilious college boy, but years later begins a decades-long affair with the same Manny, now a NY City cop.
Though she is on the exterior a model mom, Marie’s life becomes a casebook of the sufferings endured by cheaters: guilt, anxiety, a death wish, a foray into Pentecostal religion, and fruitless attempts to bring her affair to an end. Her frosty, humorless husband leaves her stuck even more.
This book is not mere beach reading. It can be savored on multiple levels — as a deeply moving personal drama, as a gloss on the predicaments of modern marriage, and as a series of prose poems, all illuminating the startling insights Marie brings forth. You will want to re-read it many, many times.
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