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An Adultery, A Novel, by Alexander Theroux (Simon & Schuster, 396 pp., $18.95)

When it comes to writing, there’s no one around like Alexander Theroux. He is that rare sort, a performer whose strenuous exhibitions one does not merely read; one collects them like the contemporary classics they are. Theroux is a challenger, a competitor; he says to the reader peremptorily, “En garde!” So one may ask more nervously than the original did, “These foils have all a length?”

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An Adultery, A Novel, by Alexander Theroux (Simon & Schuster, 396 pp., $18.95)

When it comes to writing, there’s no one around like Alexander Theroux. He is that rare sort, a performer whose strenuous exhibitions one does not merely read; one collects them like the contemporary classics they are. Theroux is a challenger, a competitor; he says to the reader peremptorily, “En garde!” So one may ask more nervously than the original did, “These foils have all a length?”