In this novcl oftwisted love, Dyan
Sheldon fractures the fairy tale of a family
life and holds up a dark and polished mir-
ror to our own habits of being and loving.
Victim of Love is set in a bad marriage
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
Paul Sutcliffe, 38, is a tenured professor
on the vergc, hc thinks, of making a litcr-
ary name for himself.Good-looking, and
charming when it suits him, he is the
shining center ofa gratifying little uni-
vcrsc: two lovcrs, long-standing Janet
and bright young Liz; two children,
Patsv and David, who thinks the world
of him; a dying mother in the Bronx who
esteems him somewhat less; and above
all, a dew)ted wife, Linda, who tends to
the exigcncics ofthc houschold and "ful-
fills" herself, as if she had the time, with a
publishing job. Paul Sutcliffe asserts a
belief in love (and in just about anything
that might persuadc the world of his sen-
sitivity), and up to now his world has
circled around him, gullibly.
But Linda Sutcliffe s own orbit around
her husband has become a bit erratic of
late. Finding the mantlc of her devotion
frayed and discovering Paul s infidelity,
shc isn t sure whcthcr it s forgivcncss or
revenge she wants. She takes a lover of
her own, throws her husband out of the
house, shoots for change. But what are
hcr chanccs? What good will it do her?
In a series of brillianth, articulated
sccncs, and with a narrativc voice that is
wryly involvcd and scathingly ironic,
Dvan Sheldon etches thcsc lives with acid
and finds them grooved into patterns of
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