Introduction
It is one of the tragedies of our time that the centuries-old institution of marriage, of monogamous union between man and woman is slowly but surely crumbling.
Under the hectic pressures of modern life, the need to put more and more of oneself into one's work just in order to stay afloat, the need of individuals to assert themselves, to fulfill their "potential," the traditional marriage relationship often buckles. Husbands spend too much time away from their wives, wives spend too much time away from their husbands. The real purpose of marriage, the providing of human companionship and warmth becomes lost. Men and women who should be sharing their lives find themselves cut off, at odds with their partners! Without constant physical and emotional contact, they lose touch with each other on all levels; they forget who their partners are, what they need.
Unfortunately, men have a much easier time of this separation than women. Men can always find another female at the office or plant to get involved with. Women, especially the wives of upper echelon executives, who don't have to work, have no access to this ready outlet. Their story is truly tragic. Many of these women are prisoners of their social position, just reaching their sexual peak, craving the constant male attention they feel they deserve, forced to sit idly by while their husbands openly chase their secretaries and accountants.
So, instead of having an adulterous affair with a person of their own socio-economic level, these women are many times forced by circumstance to give themselves to working men, to laborers, tradesmen. The results of these brief, tumultuous affairs can be disastrous, for the desperation that drives these wives too frequently clouds their good judgment and puts them in the hands of men they would never normally think of taking into their beds.
This novel attempts to take you into the secret life of one such young woman, to help you understand the causes, the effects of the hunger that drives her, so that clearer understanding of her plight, of all our plights might be gained.
-The Publishers