Enigma Variations

A novel that charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he ll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men; whether he s on a tennis court in Central Park, or on a New York sidewalk in early spring, his attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire not for just one person s body but, inevitably, for someone else s as well...