James McClure: Imago (USA 1989)

From the Publisher:
It's surprising what new love can do to the life of a man in his early forties -- principally, it complicates things.
Dr. Tom Lockhart's life is difficult enough. He has to contend with a wife whom he'd stopped loving years before, in-laws whose carping complaints echo through their expensive nursing home, irritating interns and meddling coworkers at the hospi tal. When Tom pays a social call on his friends of twenty years, he doesn't reckon on falling hopelessly in love with their alluring eighteen-year-old daughter.

But this isn't the result of a midlife crisis, a heedless rush of forty-year-old hormones -- oh, no. Tom is convinced that his love is virtuous and pure.

All he has to do is convince young Ginny of that fact.

"Vividly portrays the emotional peaks and troughs of infatuation." -- Time
"A sweet-tempered version of the old song of midlife crisis, well-sung." -- Kirkus

James McClure: Imago. A Comic Love Story with interludes of Suspemse. Penzler Books / Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445407298 (January, 1989), 244 p., $4.50.