Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wayward Wife, by Alberto Moravia. Somber short stories by an author who writes well of neurotic lovers, better of the vast spaces that separate them...
...Wayward Wife, by Alberto Moravia. Sombre short stories by an author who writes well of neurotic lovers, better of the vast spaces that separate them...
...next 22 hours, she said, they walked, talked, ate hamburgers and saw five double-feature movies. Meanwhile, the alarmed Lebohners called the cops. They finally found the couple in a Times Square movie house (the double bill: Time of Desire and Tides of Passion), arrested Dorothy as a "wayward minor...
...Wayward Wife, by Alberto Moravia. Sex is more a scourge than an urge in this collection of sourly skilled short stories, as the Italian author shows once again that in the man-woman relationship, it is not the differences but the distances that matter...
...title story. Moravia's people do not really have faces, perhaps because he is less interested in writing of people than in describing the enormous distances that separate them. But he has surveyed those spaces with great exactness. Reconciliation of a sort follows the adulterous affair in The Wayward Wife, but the terrain of indifference and ignorance that lies between the country wife and the chattering physics professor she has married is too vast to be bridged...