内容简介：
Has anything changed since "Romeo and Juliet, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina, The Great Gatsby, Darwin, Freud" and "Sartre"? The men are from West Hollywood, Massachusetts, Manhattan, and Michigan; the women are from Newport, Rhode Island. Jan Austen reports, cut by thrust and parry, on the Great Game--sexual politics--played as a fabled New England family declines and falls. Book One in this quartet, "A Single Man, Good Fortune (Must Want Wife)," is the story of Mathew and Zola Bennet-Towne--the scion and the siren.