A Fine Romance [Paperback]

Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilmentsclass, sex, ageis a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph. Doris Grumbach,An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideasideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in an American novel. . . .This novel is a pure, a rare delight. Eugenia Thornton,