66 Laps A Novel
66 Laps A Novel by Leslie Lehr is a first edition published by Villard Books in 2000, featuring 214 pages in English. This novel follows thirty-two-year-old Audrey Hastings, who swims a mile each day in her backyard pool as a way to cope with the challenges of new motherhood and the insecurities that arise with aging. However, her routine is disrupted when she discovers her husband’s affair with a younger co-worker, leading her to confront her feelings of jealousy and betrayal.
Readers will find a narrative that delves into themes of family life and the complexities of relationships. As Audrey navigates her emotions, she contemplates a fantasy of revenge that becomes increasingly real when she encounters a younger man. The story explores the consequences of jealousy and suspicion, revealing how these feelings can lead to unexpected and often disastrous outcomes. With its precise and intense writing style, 66 Laps offers an insightful look into the struggles of a woman grappling with her identity and the dynamics of her family life.
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I slipped off my clothes and dove into the pool. We are 96 percent liquid. There is nothing more sensuous than a good splash against naked skin: the initial rush of cold, the smooth acquiescence of inner fluid to the outer mantle of wet.
Thirty-two-year-old Audrey Hastings swims a mile each day in her backyard pool: sixty-six laps. These meticulously counted crossings are the balm for her frustrations as a new mother, and her hedge against the insecurity she feels upon discovering her first gray hair. But the smooth waters through which she so assiduously glides grow cloudy when it becomes crystal clear that her good-looking, easy-going husband has begun an affair with a comely co-worker named Kim–who resembles Audrey, ten years younger.
Audrey rages and stews and swims while contemplating this threat to her very existence. A fan-tasy of revenge–taking a younger lover of her own–becomes real when Audrey catches the eye of a sexy grad student at the park where she takes her two-year-old, Gina, to play.
Audrey hesitates, resists, succumbs. And Au-drey learns that the consequences of jealousy, suspicion, and adultery can be more disastrous than she ever imagined.
Precise, intelligent, and intense, 66 Laps is an altogether irresistible novel written with scalpel-like precision.
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