Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Adultery. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. For most of the story, Coelho abandons his beautifully spare, evocative prose in favor of overwrought sentences, returning to form only as the story nears its end. Adultery - Ebook written by Paulo Coelho. Unfortunately, this novel’s constrained Geneva setting lacks expansiveness, and what is personal quickly becomes plodding. ( The Fifth Mountain) or a young shepherd ( The Alchemist) traveling widely in pursuit of treasure. Coehlo’s best work is personal and expansive, whether it concerns a Jewish prophet in the ninth century B.C.E. Paul, King Solomon, Frankenstein, and Jekyll and Hyde. Her emotional nosedive includes an outrageous plan to win him over, and she ponderously dwells on John Calvin, St. From there, she initiates an erotic affair with a high school boyfriend even after her first come-on leads him to suggest she enter marriage counseling. After an interview subject reveals his thoughts about living a passionate life to buttoned-up Linda, a 30-something journalist, mother, and wife to a loving, wealthy husband, she begins to believe her own life is empty. Coelho’s disappointing new novel suffers from its lead character’s navel-gazing.
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