Summary
Jealousy appears again in the title story, the longest in the collection. Max, a modestly successful writer, is on a short visit to his home city of New Orleans when he bumps into Rita Richard, a former lover. He recalls his dismay, 20 years previously, on finding that Rita had emulated him in leaving the city to enrol as a creative writing student in Vermont - and his despair on discovering how good she was. They had been lovers before Rita, stealing his money, left him for another woman.
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Brief Lives
Brief lives The Unfinished Novel and Other Stories Valerie Martin Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 192pp, £14.99
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