Damage
Josephine Hart • 1991
Devastation Rating
betrayal love literary fiction psychological
Our Take
A politician destroys his family for an affair with his son's fiancee. Hart writes obsession in prose so spare it reads like a medical report of a catastrophe. The damage of the title is not metaphorical — it is the precise, surgical destruction of everyone the narrator claims to love.
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