β Scribed by Sande Boritz Berger
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In Split-Level, set as the nation recoils from Nixon, Alex Pearl is about to commit the first major transgression of her life. But why shouldn't she remain an officially contented, soon-to-turn-thirty wife? She's got a lovely home in an upscale Jersey suburb, two precocious daughters, and a charming husband, Donny. But Alex can no longer deny she craves moreβsome infusion of passion into the cul-de-sac world she inhabits. After she receives a phone call from her babysitter's mother reporting that Donny took the teen for a midnight ride, promising he'd teach her how to drive, Alex insists they attend Marriage Mountain, the quintessential 1970s "healing couples sanctuary." Donny accedesβbut soon becomes obsessed with the manifesto A Different Proposition and its vision of how multiple couples can live together in spouse-swapping bliss. At first Alex scoffs, but soon she gives Donny much more than he bargained for. After he targets the perfect couple to collude in his...
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