By Ruth Harris
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
REVIEWERS RAVE!
“Harris relates the games of love and war in a fast-forward, high octane style, resurrecting the nervous Seventies through a welter of accurate detail, from the clothes and books and other cultural artifacts to the sexual mores of the period. A dead-on accurate social critic, Harris has captured the feel of being young and hungry and ambitious in New York. HUSBANDS AND LOVERS deserves a large audience and explores this changing dynamic of the new dance between the sexes as few popular novels have done before.”
—New Woman magazine
“Ruth Harris has all the intellect of Mary McCarthy, all the insight of Joan Didion. Tough, trenchant, chic and ultra-sophisticated, Ms. Harris recreates the decades in which her heroines lived. Hers is a brilliant book…few will fail to be entertained and few will be able to forget what she has to say about men and women and the games people play.”
—Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Sharply and stylishly written...without sermonizing, Harris manages to write with intellect, insight and humor about the good, bad and ugly aspects of being a woman… And while her focus is on women, Harris gives some well-thought time to the men in their lives, tracking their development and proving herself an effective social commentator in the process.
"Harris treads a fine line between popular fiction and more substantive women's literature. She explores the effects of personal, political, social and sexual upheaval on women who found themselves on the cusp of a society that promised women more risks and challenges that had ever before been available to them. Through them, Harris examines the meaning of sexuality, love, success and personal happiness."
--Chicago Sun-Times
”Harris is dangerously close to moving beyond the reef that separates the lagoon of popular fiction from deeper waters. With a pen like the rapier of Zorro, her prose is sharp, her eye keen... she slashes across the breeches of ...characters whose foibles she exposes...”
—Christian Science Monitor
“Harris is an insightful writer. Her empathy for her women, especially the ugly duckling who makes herself into a swan, adds a satisfying dimension of reality. Steamy and fast-faced, you will be spellbound.”
Cosmopolitan magazine
HUSBANDS AND LOVERS
Spanning the years stretching from the sullen Seventies to the exuberant Eighties, Husbands and Lovers is a story of love and work, romance and marriage, disillusion and redemption.
Carlys Webber’s sad and insecure beginnings are past. The success she has worked hard to earn and her happy marriage define her present — but the future she longs for is threatened when her husband…
Kirk Arnold, a man with two biographies, faces the first failure of his dazzling career. His lust for restitution and revenge transform him from a loving husband into a driven stranger and propels Carlys into the arms of…
George Kouras, a sought-after retail designer, a man who calls himself a lover, not a destroyer. George is torn between the child divorce has stolen from him, his risky affair with Carlys and the passionate magic he shares with…
Jade Mullen, who always said that not being born pretty was the best thing that ever happened to her. Jade has reinvented herself into an icon of style, a woman who is more than a match for George but who, reeling from a bitter betrayal, resists the commitment he craves...
Carlys and Kirk, George and Jade: Their explosive desires are about to collide in a life and death confrontation — with consequences that can shatter four almost-perfect lives.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Millions of copies of Ruth Harris’ New York Times bestselling novels have been printed. Her fiction has been translated into 19 languages, published in 25 countries and selected by the Literary Guild and Book-of-the Month Club. Ms. Harris spent a long career as an editor and publishing executive and lives in Manhattan with her husband, writer Michael Harris.
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