wifeshopping centers on the ultimate human quest the search for companionship love and understanding these captivating stories feature american men lovestarved and striving who try and often fail to connect with the women they imagine could be their wives some of the women are fiances some are new girlfriends some are strangers who cross the mens paths for only a few hours or moments in beaching it an artist traveling on the summer circuit begins an affair with a rich married local in me and paul a lonely traveler adopts an alter ego to help him impress a single mother in bill a trip to a flea market highlights the essential differences between a man and his fiance throughout this thoroughly entertaining read wingates sympathetic characterizations reveal both the hopefulness and the heartache behind our earnest but sometimes misguided attempts at intimacy