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as he flung her onto the crimson horsehair settee and ravaged her like a wild dingo. He bathed in her flesh, he scooped it up like rich creamy yogurt until her swarthy lover burst in and brandished a large shotgun. "Release that venomous tart!" He bellowed. "Never! I must have her! I shall devour her completely until only one dazzling amber eyeball remains!" No, this is not a quote from Goolrick or A Reliable Wife, HOWEVER it could have been. A reliable Wife is not terrible. There are some beautifully written passages and it does commence with an intriguing plot but unfortunately midway through the book begins to morph into a dime store bodice ripper. Goolrick's protagonist is a miserable aging man who craves sex so much you begin to worry he's going to go completely nuts one day and mount the portly old housekeeper when she's taking out the trash. He winds up advertising for a wife and when she arrives he turns into Charlie Sheen (the new one with the Tiger Blood and porn Goddesses...) From then on the book's plot becomes so preposterous and the sexual encounters so salacious and repetitive it's truly hard to maintain interest. In addition to the bacchanalian sex, the sprawled limbs, the moist loins, the heaving bosoms etc...every character in this novel basically wants to drop dead (that is, if they're not in the middle of intercourse.) Truly, I have never seen so many homicidal, suicidal, morose, pissed off, seething, wretched individuals crammed into one book. So, in summation, if you like watching irate vengeful people savagely engage in coitus and then drop dead, you might like this book.