A short novel featuring sexual tensions among inhabitants of the university-town of Kingston, Ontario. Marianne Jones is a university administrator, a divorced mother who feels fat and old--and is determined not to lose lover Ernest, a wimpy voice teacher at the university. So, when Ernest seems unlikely to get tenure, Marianne resorts to blackmail: ever-so-conveniently, she has just caught young Terry Shouldice, college-clinic shrink, flagrante delicto with student-patient Anne Clarkson...