Dubin's lives

William Dublin is middle-aged, a distinguished biographer seeking increased accomplishment and the key to his inner feelings.

His marriage is stable if unexciting, and he lives comfortably with his wife in Vermont.

Then his imagination is caught by Fanny, a young girl of twenty-three, and he is thrown into an intense, erotic love affair that threatens to destroy his measured, disciplined world and the lives of those around him.