David Peak’s Reviews > Let Me Alone: A Novel > Status Update

Everything was ... hedged in with iron laws of custom and precedent, a complex system of etiquette. And the whole system seemed to be directed against the exercise of personal freedom--particularly against the freedom of the women. Between the sexes lay a vast unbridgeable abyss, there was no spot of common ground where a man might meet a woman frankly, as one human being meets another.