That Summer's Trance

Benedict Oakshaw, a gifted young American actor at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, abandons his intense affair with the brilliant, unconventional Jill to marry Priscilla. Returning to the States, Ben also abandons the theatre, becoming the enormously successful owner of a major ad agency in Washington D.C.

Years later, Priscilla and Ben meet Jill, and Priscilla invites the actor and her companion to join them on their annual summer vacation. Ben briefly resumes his love affair with Jill, and there are surprising and terrible consequences to Ben's self-absorption and betrayal.

'J.R. Salamanca is a brilliant writer. His prose shimmers with light, with the exacting registers of emotion and thought … Read this book.' - Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love