Adult-ery and other diversions (1st North American ed.)

In Adultery and Other Diversions, Tim Parks seeks, as he puts it, to dramatize the intimate relation between reflections that are timeless and the ongoing story of our lives.

He succeeds magnificently. Whether his focus is adultery, marriage, his relationship with his father, ghosts, his children, Italian soccer mania, or his work as a renowned writer and translator, Parks writes with astonishing clarity and intensity.

He is one of a handful of writers who can capture the drama of our liveserratic pulse and alland offer a perspective by which that drama might be illuminated.

Intimate, absorbing, unsparing but always compassionate, the thirteen diversions in Adultery and Other Diversionsthree of which have appeared in The New Yorkerreflect the vagaries of the human heart and a brilliant writers engagement with them.