Cytherea

On a frost-bitten golf course, Lee Randon realizes he may be playing his last round of the year—and that growing old feels like dying by inches. Then he remembers the doll whose still, smiling face has begun to trouble him.

In the years after the war, Lee has a comfortable home, a wife he loves, and children who turn to Fanny more readily than to him. Yet at forty-seven, he feels time closing in, and a mysterious doll glimpsed in a Fifth Avenue shop window gives shape to questions he can no longer dismiss. He buys it for his daughter—or so he tells the shopgirl—and names it Cytherea, after Venus, goddess of love. As restlessness stirs around him, Lee tries to understand what holds a marriage together, and whether the word “love” means what he has always believed. What does Cytherea’s strange allure reveal about the life he thought he understood?

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