Brief Lives

A novel of betrayal, self-deception, suicide, and murder in the chic theater world of New York city and the posh summer town of Chatham on Cape Cod.Publishers, stage directors, playwrights, and determined women circle each other decieving each other and themselves. The narrator, a Prufrock-like character has little understanding of what is going on around him as he repeats the confusion of a famous long ago ancestor.