Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates.
John Wilder appears to possess a successful career and comfortable family life, but drinking, affairs and anger threaten the world he has built. Richard Yates follows the breakdown beneath an outwardly reassuring account of success.
Read it for the distance between appearances and the experience of inhabiting them. The novel asks how long a familiar story about a life can conceal the need to change it.
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