Fiction. George Stade lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. He has published numerous reviews in Hudson Review, Paris Review, the Nation, New Republic, and the New York Times Book Review. Of LOVE IS WAR, Stade writes that "[f]rom the beginning I intended [it] to be as hard, clear symmetrical (and irrefutable) as a proposition in geometry: the area of a parallelogram equals the base times the altitude. The four corners of my parallelogram are Chuck Lockhart and Claire McCoy (who are having an affair) and their spouses. Divorce, the lovers decide, is not an option. Besides, they have come, without realizing it, to hate their spouses. The only solution, Chuck decides, is to cross diagonals: he will kill Claire's husband; she will kill Chuck's wife." "The most striking and pleasurable feature of this very pleasurable book is the confident lilt of the voice--the prose sings itself and even has several refrains where the reader can hum along. But it's not only lyrical--t's als

George Stade is the author of three novels: Confessions of a Lady-Killer, Sex and Violence: A Love Story, Love is War. He has edited numerous scholarly books, and is Consulting Editorial Director of Barnes and Noble Classics and Editor-in-Chief of Scribner's British Writers Series and the fourteen-volume European Writers Series. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.