Seduction Theory
The smart, funny, delicious campus novel that everyone is talking about
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Publisher Description
'A SHARP, CLEVER STORY OF TWO MISBEHAVING ACADEMICS' SUNDAY TIMES
'THE MOST FUN I HAVE HAD WITH A NOVEL IN YEARS' MEGAN NOLAN
'SO EMOTIONALLY HONEST, CLEVER AND SEXY' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
Love and marriage - and infidelity. Seduction Theory is a smart, funny, delicious novel about a long marriage being derailed during a hot summer on a prestigious American campus.
The long summer holiday has begun on the campus of Edwards University in upstate New York.
Simone is the star of the creative writing department, a renowned scholar, successful memoirist and campus sex icon.
Ethan, her devoted husband, is a lecturer in the same department, though he hasn't published a novel since he was twenty-six.
Their marriage is long, strong and happy. But, over the course of that aggressively hot summer break, both will stray. And, as others become involved, new sides to the story of this apparently flawless marriage will emerge.
Deliciously smart and bitingly funny, Seduction Theory is a novel about love and betrayal, truth and fiction, power and attraction.
'A CAMPUS NOVEL FOR OUR TIMES. SHARPLY FUNNY' NEW YORK MAGAZINE
'ACTUALLY JUST AS FUN AS IT SOUNDS' LIT HUB
'SO CLASSY, SO COOL AND SO FUNNY' NAOMI WOOD
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
An MFA student reveals secrets about her writing professors' marriage in Adrian's clever if underwhelming latest (after The Second Season). The novel takes the form of a manuscript written by Robbie Green, a woman studying at Edwards University in Upstate New York, and it follows the story of tenured faculty member Simone, who's well-known on campus for her sex appeal and her marriage to fellow professor Ethan. While Ethan is in Portland, Ore., visiting his mother, he sleeps with Abigail, the creative writing department's secretary, who's in town visiting her father. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Ethan, Simone becomes intensely close with Robbie, as the two read Mrs. Dalloway and train for a marathon together. After Abigail emails Simone about her affair with Ethan, Simone holds the betrayal over Ethan's head and withholds the truth of her "emotional affair" with Robbie. When Robbie joins Ethan's workshop, she begins writing about their complicated foursome for her thesis. Adrian poses intriguing questions about the nature of betrayal, the blurry ethics of professor-student intimacy, and the right to tell another person's story, but too often the narrative favors Robbie's snarky barbs ("Abigail, who was not attractive but to whom Ethan was attracted") over meaningful insights. This is a mixed bag.
