Publisher's Synopsis
When unhappily married Anthony starts an affairwith John Lennon fan Yvonne - an attractive younggirl half his age - he opens a libidinous can of worms.His ruthless wife, Rachel, embarks on a relationshipof her own with a man she has met briefly at areception - a tormented lush named Harrington.When Yvonne's obsessional older brother, themuscular, menacing, Hugo steps in he causeshavoc by diving into an affair of his own withthe love-lorn Harrington.A mad roller-coaster of sexual permutations erupts as each character seeks solace from thefervent demands of their own psyche.But, for all the wild sexual busyness, it is sexwithout savour, for here, relationships are reducedto confession as a substitute for sensuality.Each lover now entangled in a frantic emotionaljigsaw where the pieces refuse to fit.The story moves from the land of the Beatles, Liverpool, to London, to New York in a Rock 'n' Rollof sexual experimentation in a Rock 'n' Roll spoof of the IRIS MURDOCH genre.French novelist ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET (Pour un Nouveau Roman) theorized that it was the obligation of the writer to find a new form for their material. This novel with its subordination of plot and its focus on each character and their individual vision places it, loosely, within the Nouveau Roman.Akin to LEONARD COHEN'S novel BEAUTIFUL LOSERS - a quote from COHEN captures the theme of JIGSAW LOVERS: "A heavy burden lifted from my soul: I heard that love was out of my control.
