The sudden death of Adam Berendt, an enigmatic artist, has a disruptive effect on his friends whom it seems hardly knew him after all. Adam was scarred, ugly and detached, but women loved him, and their husbands were attracted and repelled by him. Lots of threads loosely weave together to give a clever picture of each person’s mid-life crisis. Long, slow-moving with lots of character description, but worth the effort if you can make the time.
