Diary of an Affair

By Jeannie Sakol

Book Overview

From Publishers WeeklyIt's love on the run for Liza and Dan, who meet on the jogging trail around Central Park's reservoir. Liza is a 32-year-old up-and-coming business tycoon; Dan, a travel exec and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556111363
• ISBN13: 9781556111365
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Superb Trash!

Oh, how many times did I read this in the early 90s?? Although there's almost every Married Man-Single Girl (using the term "girl" advisedly) cliche going on here, this is one guilty pleasure of a book. It explores, in diary form, the inner lives of those involved in a doomed affair between Liza, a massively insecure, career-obsessed Yuppie & Dan, a supposedly straight-up guy with a frigid-ish wife, 2 pre-adolescent girls & an inability to commit to much of anything. The setting: Upper-crust Manhattan, late '80s. The characters: Way too clueless & soulless & easy on themselves for comfort. Though Maggie, Dan's wife, is portrayed as the put-upon victim, no one comes off well. Certainly not Liza who I THINK the author is trying to present empathetically, but who I found to be self-serving & irritating beyond belief. Still...the writing is breezy & on target, the situations involving (if predictable). This is a fast, memorable read about a bunch of indulged people who cut themselves way too much slack.