High Infidelity
Subtitle: 24 Great Short Stories About Adultery By Some Of Our Best Contemporary Authors
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: July 2, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780688151744
Subjects: Fiction anthologies & collections; Modern fiction; Fiction - General; American Short Story Collections; Sexuality In Literature; Fiction; Short stories, American; Anthologies (multiple authors); Short Stories (Anthologies); Fiction / General; 20th century; Adultery; American fiction
Description: From Sara Powers's "The Wild," in which a grizzly bear unknowingly settles the score for a wronged wife, to T. Coraghessan Boyles "Ike and Nina," which brings to life an illicit affair between Nina Khrushchev and President Eisenhower, the stories in High Infinity are daring, hilarious, moving, seductive, and even, at times, horrifying.

While Ethan Canin's "The Year of Getting to Know Us" explores the impact of an adulterous father on a young son, Marly Swick's "A Hole in the Language" shows how the loss of a child leads to an affair between two suburban housewives.