Summer Sweat

Summer SweatIn the throes of the most destructive love affair of her life, with the composer Gregor Wodicki in the summer of 1975, Adriana Kaplan frequently wanted to die, washing down prescription Benzedrines with vodka in some desolate beautiful place (the Catskills, possibly), yet Adriana was never so distraught as to wish to be dead in any permanent way.She was too restless, inquisitive, troublesome a young woman for deadness. She especially wouldn't have wanted her lover's wife to outlive h...