an American moralist

Relentless and terrible book on the life and conjugal, the panoramic window well explains the lack of success has all his life Richard Yates.
The American Society of 50/60 years probably was not prète to such texts. The sharp eye of an entomologist Yates applies to all the protagonists of this tragic story. The clinical behavior analysis highlights with a little or a lot of cruelty smallness thereof with consequent widespread human mess.
Text very hard and disorienting, perhaps not to put in too fragile hands.
However, it must read Richard Yates.