All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve 310 pp.
A well-written but aggravating story. The main character, a college professor, is an annoying, chauvanistic, anti-Semitic prig who falls desperately in love with a woman who does not love him. He coerces her into marriage and they live a reasonably happy life until he discovers that she has bought a small house to use as her own private refuge for quiet afternoons away from him and their children. In a fit of anger he threatens to divorce her and things go downhill from there. I have to admit, I was really hoping something horrible would happen to this guy because he was such a jerk.
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