Based on 200 soul-baring interviews, Denholtz tracks the lives of rich women married to powerful men. In exquisitely drawn portraits, she reveals the hell and the perks of their relationships to husbands, lovers, money, and the three stages of development toward personal achievement and self-esteem.
The first book to reveal why one out of every three middle-class American wives takes a lover. The secret lives of married women told in anecdotes and direct quotes by an award-winning author on the English faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Intimate interviews exploring women's motivation, pain, pleasure, rewards, and guilt.