Will has a good sex lifewith the woman he married. So why then is heincreasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that were they to break outof his imaginati... » 

Will has a good sex lifewith the woman he married. So why then is heincreasingly plagued by violent erotic fantasies that were they to break outof his imagination and into the real world have the power to destroy not onlyhis family but his career? Hes about to lose his grip when he attends acollege reunion and there discovers evidence of a past sexual betrayal oneserious enough that it threatens to overpower the present even as it offers akey to Wills dangerous obsessions. Hypnotic beautifully written thismesmerizing novel by an extremely gifted writer San Francisco Chronicleexplores the corrosive effect of eviland how painful psychological truths longburied within a family can corrupt the present and through courage andunderstanding lead to healing and renewal. Like Scheherezade in the grip of afever dream Kathryn Harrison . . . has written one of those rare books inlanguage of unparalleled beauty that affirm the holiness of life saidShirley Ann Grau about Poison. And the same can be said about Envy. «