Peyton Amberg
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Peyton Amberg is a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, she slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more brutal.
A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madame Bovary, Peyton Ambergis a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage, as it charts the free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure.
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Tama Janowitz's Peyton Ambergis nasty, funny, jaundiced, sarcastic, searingly honest, and mesmerizing from beginning to end.
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