ON THE WAY TO MY FATHER’S FUNERAL: New and Selected StoriesThe second story, "Men at Lunch" opens... ”It took him five years to discover that his wife was getting it on with his daughter’s best friend’s father, a man he played poker with on Friday nights, a man with a history of failed bluffs. And it was not that the couple went out of their way to deceive. Their involvement with each other was so continually in evidence he found it difficult -- all but impossible -- to believe they might have something to hide. That was the explanation he gave his friends for his five years or more of blindness and inaction. ... How had he missed the point for so long? It was that, the failure to see what was obvious to everyone else, that troubled him even more than the fact of his wife’s long term deception. Once a week for 5 years she had been fucking this neighbor, this friend, and he had let it go by as if it were not anything out of the ordinary." |
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