The Wallpaper Fox (Univ of Chicago PR)Paperback - Univ of Chicago PR, 15 May 2000

Written with razor-sharp wit and keen psychological insight, this compelling novel explores the way people--husbands, wives, parents, children, lovers--use and abuse each other. Under the meticulously maintained social conventions of the wealthy Warner family lie more primitive impulses and desires. As each character faces a crisis, we start to see the fascinating ways in which they make moral choices.

Philipson gives us a very believable portrait of a marriage. He also gives us no easy answers . . . and best of all, real storytelling. --Publishers Weekly

This solid and serious novel emerges as not just an expose of what really goes on behind the well-groomed facades of the affluent, but a thoughtful exploration of character and the efficacy of moral action in forming and reforming it. --Jane Larkin Crain, New York Times Book Review

A swift, no-fudging narrative by a writer it is always rewarding to rediscover. --Sophie Wilkins, National Review

An extraordinary novel, fascinating, compelling, and totally disconcerting. --Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Has the drama, intelligence and moral force of an American Howards End.-Cynthia Ozick