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Article: Sex lives of the savants
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- New Statesman
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- June 16, 2008
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Sex lives of the savants Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles (1910-1939) Katie Roiphe Virago, 303pp. £12.99
"Marriage is perpetually interesting; it is the novel most of us are living in," states Katie Roiphe in her introduction to these seven studies. Uncommon Arrangements does not, however, detail the kind of married life most people are living in: if it did, it might be a very much duller book. Rather, Roiphe concerns herself with unions that are fraught with infidelity, egomania and romantic delusion, each one a mini-melodrama of the domestic. Roiphe, who is a professor at New York University, shows herself a fine judge of literary merit in ...