adulterous

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Cook’s Tom Ripley-like story — and the wary narrator’s retelling of it — is loaded with fateful encounters, hidden agendas, shrouded identities, adulterous betrayals and brushes with death.

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Her mother has recently died; she’s separated from her adulterous husband and sleeps in “sexless pajamas … facing the space my husband once occupied”; her workaholic adult daughter may or may not be struggling with bulimia.

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We learn, through liberal quotation of Hardwick’s unpublished letters, how deeply she suffered through Lowell’s manic episodes, hospitalizations and adulterous love affairs.

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McGregor said he worked hard at evoking characters in “Inferno,” which has 13 musical vignettes, portraying different groups of sinners: adulterous lovers, hypocrites, thieves, gluttons and Satan, among others.

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More problematic still is a corny story line in which Theo suspects that the lead neurologist might be carrying on some kind of adulterous affair with his dead wife’s brain print.

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