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Vincent Li has decided to leave Dunster House to marry Fiona Murray, a tutor in environmental sciences, whom Li was accused of influnecing Liem to hire. Liem said that the two became romantically involved only after Murray was hired...
This sounds like bedroom farce, but the hero doesn't see it that way. Ira narrates his own ensnarement as he pursues and marries a troubled beauty named Fiona, and his tone, between episodes of drooling, is one of earnest concern. Rightly so, because Fiona counterattacks with Ira's own weapon. She was abused as a girl by her father, and her psychological wounds require constant, repeated assurance that her husband (who lusts for all women) desires her. "Prove it," Fiona demands, often at moments when Ira lacks inspiration. She grows excessively religious and further benumbs Ira with frenzied...
...from constant sexual striving, less pornography than pathology. Every page of every chapter is nose to skin, eyeball to sweaty flesh, told by Ira in long, gush-of-consciousness sentences that ooze on for several hundred words. Now and then the type switches to italic as the tormented Fiona, somewhat less convincingly, rants her anguish...
...Mondy improves in the second and third acts it is possibly because he is sharing the stage with the best actor of the production, Katy Selverstone as Cecily. Her ditzy manner is absolutely sincere; she inhabits her character far more believably than do any of the others. Fiona Reed is likewise quite good as the intimidating Lady Bracknell. Reed is about twenty years younger than most actors cast in this famous part and this makes the part more interesting. She is no less a gorgon for being pretty but her relative youth (which after all makes much more sense...
...tutors said Li forced McGillicuddy out to open up a position for Fiona Murray, an environmental studies tutor, who they said was romantically involved with...