by dint of Eric Jerome Dickey Dutton.

by dint of Eric Jerome Dickey Dutton, May 2003 $2395 ISBN-0-525-94724-8

Dickey is back and as dicey as to the end of time in his eighth book. It is a steamy, lascivious and realistically chilling novel about for what cause the extracurricular bedroom antics of a contemporary power married pair leads to heartache and heartbreak.

After being told that her husband, Charles, is having an affair, the protagonist in The Other Woman, nicknamed Freckle eventually drifts into undivided herself. Oddly, the tryst is with the husband of Jessica, the woman who is sleeping with Charles. This outline leads to complexities that make the work nearly impossible to put down.

Dickey is hands-down the same of the best contemporary storytellers forward the scene. The Other Woman's marvelous multidimensional characters and witty dialogue save the work from becoming just another relationship novel about regard with affection gone wrong. In describing the familiar topic of finding a well adapted man, Dickeys mastery of a typical sistah-girlfriend conversation is classic: "What kinda man you want? She says. I'm a free from bashfulness black woman from the Bible Belt. I want a man who can make me scream for Jesus upon a Saturday night, then take me to behold Him on Sunday morning."

Finally, The Other Woman is vintage Dickey. With a laundry list of best-sellers in a less degree than his belt and several awards, the bicoastal novelist--based in sees Angeles but with a hearthstone in Atlanta, where he reportedly does mostly of his writing--continues to deliver bravura fiction in dynamic fashion.

--Glenn Townes is a usual contributor to BIBR.

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