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Villard
March 2000
On Sale: March 7, 2000
Featuring: Audrey Hastings
224 pages
ISBN: 081299230X
EAN: 9780812992304
Kindle: B001RLTFM0
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
I slipped off my clothes and dove into the pool. We are
96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a
good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of cold,
the smooth acquiescence of inner fluid to the outer mantle
of wet. Thirty-two-year-old Audrey Hastings swims a mile each day in
her backyard pool: sixty-six laps. These meticulously
counted crossings are the balm for her frustrations as a new
mother, and her hedge against the insecurity she feels upon
discovering her first gray hair. But the smooth waters
through which she so assiduously glides grow cloudy when it
becomes crystal clear that her good-looking, easy-going
husband has begun an affair with a comely co-worker named
Kim--who resembles Audrey, ten years younger. Audrey rages and stews and swims while contemplating
this threat to her very existence. A fan-tasy of
revenge--taking a younger lover of her own--becomes real
when Audrey catches the eye of a sexy grad student at the
park where she takes her two-year-old, Gina, to play. Audrey hesitates, resists, succumbs. And Au-drey
learns that the consequences of jealousy, suspicion, and
adultery can be more disastrous than she ever imagined. Precise, intelligent, and intense, 66 Laps is an
altogether irresistible novel written with scalpel-like
precision.
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