Ethan Frome

A plodding tale of a plodding man whose wife, who looks like Granny Clampett and has the personality of Dick Cheney, drives Frome into the arms of his wife's cousin Mattie Silver. Well, not quite because Ethan Frome doesn't have the wherewithal to pull the trigger and go to the arms of Mattie Silver. In the end he and Mattie try to pull a Thelma and Louise that fails miserably, ultimately leaving Ethan, Mattie, and his wife Zina conjoined in a menage a trois from Dante's Inferno, reminiscent of the two Lazeruses (Lazeri?) in the original Star Trek. On the plus side, the book is nowhere near as long as Moby Dick.