Diary of an Affair

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.