\'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.\'Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction.
The catastrophe of the Reardons\' failing marriage is set among the rising and falling fortunes of novelists, journalists, and scholars who labour \'in the valley of.
But the brilliant future Amy expected has evaded her husband.
On the strength of critical acclaim for his fourth novel, he has married the refined Amy Yule. \'Because one book had a sort of success he imagined his struggles were over.\'Scholarly, anxious Edwin Reardon had achieved a precarious career as the writer of serious fiction