A Loving Wife Author:Violet Weingarten The qualities of sympathy and affection-and quiet acerbity-that made readers respond with joy to the appearance, in 1968, of Mrs. Beneker, are joined with a new depth of feeling in this moving portrayal of Molly Gilbert, the loving wife of Violet Weingarten's new novel. — Molly (the wife) disconcerted because her husband keeps telling her to do j... more »ust what she wants to do; Molly (the mother) embarrassed about putting her college son in the same bedroom with his gorl; Molly (the social worker) coping cooly with boards of directors and warmly with her charges; Molly (the monogamous) alarmed at finding herself attracted by a man who is not her husband; Molly (the mistress) hesitating outside motel rooms-and abandoning herselfonce inside them; Molly (the "liberated") filled with remorse and shame; Molly (the desperate) cutting loose from unbearable complications, flying alone to Rome to sort out her life.
Here, portrayed with a wonderfully civilized grace, is the nice womannearing middle age, the wife who has felt herself happily married and who is suddenly seixed with discontent. Her story is familiar-but the woman is so freshlt seen that in A loving Wife the pleasures of recognition are seasoned with the pleasures of suprise.« less