I've made them unhappy and vengeful, inspiring in them a desire to destroy, a desire to destroy me, I've done that, or the book has done it, or the both of us have done it." The book has made them more unhappy than they were before they read it. But (he touches his left eyelid with his little finger) I've caused such unhappiness in the reviewers. I can take it professionally, it won't hurt the book, the book is going to find an audience. He keeps going back to it, a tongue to a sore tooth, and he has just that look on his face as he talks about the critics, a puzzled, wide-eyed flinch: "This mean-spirited response to me has not been pleasant. People who don't know me are angry with me. He is an intense, delicately gestured man who turns away from his listener to sit in three-quarter profile while a thunderstorm gathers outside. It is a "great book," he will tell you, riding in a taxi to a radio talk show a book that "is written exquisitely, in my humble opinion," he will say in a limousine, or while he punches the elevator button, over and over, heading up to his hotel suite. He has just spent nine years to earn $4 million in the writing of his much-bruited and critically bruised book on sex in America, entitled "Thy Neighbor's Wife."
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