Writing like that suggests a bright future for Tom Drury. In turn he is nearly hit by a car driven by a distracted young woman who totals her car against a tree instead. Bob gives her and the dead deer a ride to her boyfriend's house, and all three wind up dining naked together on venison steak. On reunion day, with all her children due to meet at her trailer, her current light o' love dies in the bedroom, on the job as it were. A kidnapping goes ludicrously wrong.
People betray each other.
Lust overrides good sense. They had started talking about golf, then moved on to contemporary poetry. When Fred returned to Boston two days later, Janet's marriage was over. A little far-fetched, you might say. And in truth, some of this is melodrama masquerading as realism, and it doesn't work.