A Single Man, Good Fortune Must Want Wife: American Pride & Prejudice Book One

Has anything changed since Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Great Gatsby, Darwin, Freud and Sartre ? The men are from West Hollywood, Massachusetts, Manhattan, and Michigan; the women are from Newport, Rhode Island. Jan Austen reports, cut by thrust and parry, on the Great Game–sexual politics–played as a fabled New England family declines and falls. Book One in this quartet, A Single Man, Good Fortune (Must Want Wife) , is the story of Mathew and Zola Bennet-Towne–the scion and the siren.