Alteration

Sonnet Trilogy #2

by Lee Holz

Impediments, Book 1 of The Sonnet Trilogy, told how, in the fall of 1953, Gerard, scion of a wealthy Swiss banking family, crossed the Atlantic to attend college in the United States leaving behind his wife Beatrice at university in Zurich with his cousin Paul. In doing so, he changed his life, those of the two left behind and the lives of Sarah and Jack, American friends he made at college. Alteration, Book 2, is concerned with the relationship between Sarah and Jack and their respective relationships with Jack’s best friend, the recently divorced Gerard, and with Sarah’s best friend and roommate, Lily, an American of mixed-race. As in Book 1, there are questions of love, ambition, gender roles and sex to be faced. With the coming of Lily in the fall of 1955, race is added.

391 pages, Paperback

First published April 20, 2013

About the author

Lee Holz is a novelist, poet, lawyer and opera fan and eclectic reader. He lived in Europe for many years, and his travels took him to Australia and more than thirty other countries on five continents.

Lee lives on an island with his feline buddy "far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."

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Reviews

[Nancy Jarvis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Set In the late 1950's and early 1960's, young college students Jack and Sarah believe they are well suited for one another and that they understand what challenges their lives will hold and what their awakening sexuality will mean, but there are unexpected alterations to their expectations which bring new options and questions to their relationship. The book is slowly paced yet fascinating, but be aware that there is a great deal of explicit sex in the book.

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book very much. I would like to backtrack and read the first book before I do a review on this.
I won this through the First reads program on Goodreads.