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Kiss mommy goodbye5/7/2023 Mel Segal (""There were men around who were content to let you dress yourself, feed yourself, and even blow your own nose""). tomato paste in the shepherd's pie (a large debt here to Diary of a Mad Housewife and others) the destruction of Donna's self-confidence, her retreat from life and sex (except for a husbandly rape after a nightmare-party, which produces baby Sharon) Donna's affair with warm, divorced Dr. And Fielding (Trance, The Best of Friends) does a reasonably convincing job, mostly through extensive, painful-funny dialogue, of tracing a familiar road to wifely misery and divorce: the initial sexual attraction, the birth of son Adam, the arguments dictatorial Victor's increasingly obsessive demands, with fights over tomato sauce vs. The doomed, mid-30s couple here is Victor and Donna Cressy of Palm Beach, Fla. Though billed as a novel about ""child-snatching"" by divorced parents, the first (and much better) half of this solid, TV-movie-style soap/melodrama consists of flashbacks-from a custody hearing-to scenes from a rotten marriage.
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