Adulterous: A Novel

Adulterous is a comedy novel all about divorce lawyers. You'll laugh while you learn...· A divorce lawyer's tips on HOW TO DATE AS A MARRIED MAN· A divorce lawyer's secretary's tips on HOW TO DATE AS A MARRIED WOMAN· Whether it's dishonest for a woman not to tell her new beau that her ex didn't cheat on her until AFTER she began to refuse him sex· Whether it's immoral -- albeit legally still adultery -- for a man to "step out" on his wife after she refuses him sex for one year· Whether a man's relentless pressure campaign to get his wife to engage in oral sodomy can constitute her grounds for divorce as "cruel and inhuman treatment"· Whether a woman accused of adultery can defend herself by claiming that she was forced into it through sexual harassment· Whether divorce lawyers secretly approve of adultery because "without it we'd all go broke"· Whether divorce lawyers can indeed be a laughing matter *** After over fifty years of cartooning for publications that appreciate a battle¿tested laugh, I have a pretty reliable radar for genuine humor - and Adulterous is permeated with it. The author, a graduate of NYU Law School, has turned divorce law into a full¿blown comic universe, complete with outrageous moral puzzles, questionable dating advice, and stream¿of¿consciousness commentary that made me snort out loud more than once. The humor is bold, the legal insights sneakily educational, and the characters-lawyers, clients, a multitasking secretary, and assorted misbehavers - are drawn with the same exaggerated truth I've spent years sketching. It's a comedy of human nature disguised as a legal novel that manages to make you laugh while slyly teaching you how the legal mind twists, untwists, and occasionally tap¿dances around human relationships. If you enjoy wit with bite, this book - clever, irreverent, and unexpectedly insightful - delivers in spades. -Sandra CoopersmithWriter, editor and cartoonist