Love is war

"Partly a satire on the war between the sexes and partly a story of male midlife crisis, Stade's third novel, like his last, Sex and Violence (2005), features an English professor who teaches at Columbia University. Acerbic George Lockhart channels his "wiseassisms" into his literary criticism when he isn't directing them at his wife, Jane--their relationship seems to consist of one long argument about conservative radio host Dr. Lena and various lines-in-the-sand drawn over household chores."