Notes for a Eulogy

This book recounts a 23-year relationship between a man, Morley Peck, and a woman, Francine Tanzer, that is based on lying. They meet at work and although they go their separate ways after one year, they remain friends for the other 22. Morley, an inward, quiet man, tells Francine more about himself than he's ever told anyone, except that everything he tells her is a lie. The book deals with the reasons people lie to one another, the satisfactions and difficulties that come from lying, and the way relationships change from one's late thirties to one's early sixties.