The Sonnets: A Novel
Lennard J Davis
- Will
- Marlow,
- a
- 40-year-old
- Columbia
- University
- professor
- of
- Shakespeare,
- lives
- comfortably
- with
- his
- wife,
- Anne,
- and
- their
- two
- children
- in
- a
- university
- apartment
- overlooking
- Riverside
- Park,
- until
- his
- sex
- life
- begins
- to
- assume
- curious
- parallels
- with
- that
- of
- the
- Bard.
- A
- former
- student,
- Christopher
- Johnson,
- arrives
- at
- his
- doorstep
- bleeding
- from
- a
- self-inflicted
- wound;
- Marlow
- is
- smitten
- by
- the
- youth's
- neediness
- and
- strange
- feminine
- beauty.
- Then
- a
- challenging
- and
- seductive
- student
- in
- Marlow's
- Sonnets
- graduate
- class,
- Chantal
- Mukarjee,
- enters
- his
- life.
- Anne
- catches
- them
- and,
- enraged,
- moves
- out.
- Chantal
- and
- Will
- embark
- on
- a
- dangerous,
- dark
- affair.Meanwhile,
- Will
- has
- taken
- in
- zoned-out
- Christopher
- and
- finds
- an
- exhilarating
- sexual
- fulfillment
- with
- the youth.
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