ISBN: 0-88739-237-7
224 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 7/2000
Paperback Original
Price: $14.95
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My Wife's Last Lover
Martin Golan
My Wife's Last Lover is the moving and often funny tale of the psychosexual tension between men and women, the power struggle and longing for safety that converge in a modern-day marriage. It tells the story of Daniel Weil, a seemingly happy, successful man who loves his wife so deeply it verges on sexual obsession. Yet he walks out on her and their two children, in part because her beauty and success bring up his own feelings of weakness and inadequacy.
This first novel by Martin Golan dramatizes the plight of being a man today, so different from what it was in the last generation. It also reveals how different it is to be a woman today, which Daniel does not truly understand until the book's final scene.
It was the moment I had been waiting for. So much was on my mind that night. I was feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, at the end of my rope, and I desperately needed to talk about it. But I was in a modern marriage, with a modern woman, meaning my wife was also feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, at the end of her rope, and desperately needed to talk about it.
Review: "In this story of middle-class misery, Golan uses everyday language to bring Dan to life, fleshing him out with many unattractive, yet true-to-life qualities. For example, his conversations seem like those one might overhear in a boy's locker room, which is surprising in this debut novel, yet somehow refreshing."
-Booklist
Bio: MARTIN GOLAN believes that he learned the most about writing from driving a taxicab in New York City, which he did in college and graduate school. He now lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his wife and their two children. My Wife's Last Lover is Golan's first published novel.
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