66 Laps: A Novel - Hardcover

Spirson, Leslie Lehr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503846 ISBN 13: 9780375503849

Publisher: Villard Books, 2000

Synopsis

As a thirty-two-year-old wife and mother takes out her frustrations swimming endless laps in the pool, she learns that her husband is having an affair with a woman ten years younger than herself.

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About the Author

Leslie Lehr Spirson is the winner of the 1998 Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society Gold Medal for Best Novella. She wrote the film Heartless as well as several humorous parenting books; 66 Laps is her first novel. A graduate of the U.S.C. School of Cinema/ TV, she lives in Southern California with her husband and daughters.

From the Inside Flap

f my clothes and dove into the pool. We are 96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of cold, the smooth acquiescence of inner fluid to the outer mantle of wet.<br><br>Thirty-two-year-old Audrey Hastings swims a mile each day in her backyard pool: sixty-six laps. These meticulously counted crossings are the balm for her frustrations as a new mother, and her hedge against the insecurity she feels upon discovering her first gray hair. But the smooth waters through which she so assiduously glides grow cloudy when it becomes crystal clear that her good-looking, easy-going husband has begun an affair with a comely co-worker named Kim--who resembles Audrey, ten years younger.<br>        Audrey rages and stews and swims while contemplating this threat to her very existence. A fan-tasy of revenge--taking a younger lover of her own--becomes real when Audrey catches the eye of a sexy grad student at

Edition details

• Publisher: Villard Books
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375503846
• ISBN 13: 9780375503849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214