The Privileges
Jonathan Dee
Random House
Smart and socially gifted, Adam and Cynthia Morey are perfect for each other. With Adam’s rising career in the world of private equity, a beautiful home in Manhattan, gorgeous children, and plenty of money, they are, by any reasonable standard, successful. But for the Moreys, their future of boundless privilege is not arriving fast enough. As Cynthia begins to drift, Adam is confronted with a choice that will test how much he is willing to risk to ensure his family’s happiness and to recapture the sense that the only acceptable life is one of infinite possibility.&nbsp;<b>The Privileges</b>&nbsp;is an odyssey of a couple touched by fortune, changed by time, and guided above all else by their epic love for each other.<p><i>"Jonathan Dee’s intelligent new novel, “The Privileges,” asks these questions in the form of a contemporary morality tale. The author of four previous novels, and a frequent contributor to Harper’s and The New York Times Magazine, Dee is graceful, articulate and perceptive, and often hilariously funny."&nbsp;</i>&nbsp;-&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>Roxana Robinson, The New York Times</b><br></p><p><b>Jonathan Dee</b><i>&nbsp;is the author of six novels. He is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, a frequent contributor to Harper's, and a former senior editor of The Paris Review. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and the New School.</i></p>