Between Ford’s introspections into the nature of relationships, he treats the reader to lengthy dissections on East Coast intellectuals, the arts scene, and New Hampshire. While the adulterous male narrator may be one of the most clichéd characters in American fiction, Theroux uses the stock characters to enter a world of deception, dissimulation, and denial. Farol is married, and Christian is going out with Marina. Painter Christian Ford loves Farol Colorado. The writing is as straightforward as the slip of a plot. A gateway to his larger works would be An Adultery, written more than two decades earlier and less than half the length of Laura Worholic. The 878-page work can be intimidating to readers, especially those unfamiliar with Theroux’s bombastic, encyclopedic, maximalist style.
Alexander Theroux’s name returned to the news with the publication of Laura Worholic: or, The Sexual Intellectual.
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