Two pregnant women meet at an adult class in pre-Columbian art and develop a close friendship, which changes the course of their lives

Adult Education

Jaffee, Annette Williams

Literature & Fiction

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

A rediscovered gem about women's friendship and the shared longings of young wives and mothers.Becca is a former dancer from Bennington, now an aspiring poet; a ditzy but brilliant young red head from Chicago who uses humor to fend off the world. Ulli is a calm, deeply optimistic, smoothly beautiful ex-fashion model from Sweden. Newly married-Ulli to a TV news anchor, Becca to a successful professor and expectant mothers living just off the campus of a major university, they meet in an adult ed class and begin a friendship that changes their lives. Raising their children together, telling the intimate secrets of the past, helping each other cope with their less than perfect marriages-to laugh at what is not perfect in life and appreciate what is-this is the story of the attraction of opposites, of the friendship we all once had and wish we had held onto. Originally published to stunning international acclaim, now back in print with an Afterword by the author, Adult Education is"An engaging, engrossing, sometimes wallopingly funny novel...The discovery of Jaffee is a delight."-The Los Angeles Times"A wonderful novel; funny and heartbreaking, cruelly satiric and tender."-Joyce Carol Oates"An exuberant chronicle of growing upa poignant and funny and wholly recognizable picture of our times."-Rosellen Brown"Fervent and funnyThere's no soft focus, no airbursh. She launches into details about which women are matter-of-fact and men are notoriously squeamish. Becca's water breaks, her breasts leak. Becca behaves, for the most part, the way women do when men aren't watching."-The Washington Post"A fine, strong work, one that frequently strikes to the heart of the fearful complexities inherent in human relationships."-The Dallas Morning NewsAnnette Williams Jaffee is the author of The Dangerous Age (Leapfrog) and Recent History (Putnam). She lives on the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is at work on a new novel about writing women.

Education & Teaching

Higher & Continuing Education

Penguin Putnam~trade

A rediscovered gem about women's friendship and the shared longings of young wives and mothers.Becca is a former dancer from Bennington, now an aspiring poet; a ditzy but brilliant young red head from Chicago who uses humor to fend off the world. Ulli is a calm, deeply optimistic, smoothly beautiful ex-fashion model from Sweden. Newly married-Ulli to a TV news anchor, Becca to a successful professor and expectant mothers living just off the campus of a major university, they meet in an adult ed class and begin a friendship that changes their lives. Raising their children together, telling the intimate secrets of the past, helping each other cope with their less than perfect marriages-to laugh at what is not perfect in life and appreciate what is-this is the story of the attraction of opposites, of the friendship we all once had and wish we had held onto. Originally published to stunning international acclaim, now back in print with an Afterword by the author, Adult Education is"An engaging, engrossing, sometimes wallopingly funny novel...The discovery of Jaffee is a delight."-The Los Angeles Times"A wonderful novel; funny and heartbreaking, cruelly satiric and tender."-Joyce Carol Oates"An exuberant chronicle of growing upa poignant and funny and wholly recognizable picture of our times."-Rosellen Brown"Fervent and funnyThere's no soft focus, no airbursh. She launches into details about which women are matter-of-fact and men are notoriously squeamish. Becca's water breaks, her breasts leak. Becca behaves, for the most part, the way women do when men aren't watching."-The Washington Post"A fine, strong work, one that frequently strikes to the heart of the fearful complexities inherent in human relationships."-The Dallas Morning NewsAnnette Williams Jaffee is the author of  The Dangerous Age (Leapfrog) and Recent History (Putnam). She lives on the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and is at work on a new novel about writing women.

Literary

Ontario Review Press

The author of two exuberantly praised novels, Annette Williams Jaffee returns with a wise and sensual tale about pursuing the one great passion of our lives, not in our youth, but at that last dangerous moment when everything we own and everyone we love is at risk. The Millers are the envy of all who know them, a 'successful' couple on the verge of the best years of their lives. Suzanne's first book is enjoying national attention while Barry can write his own ticket to teach at any law school in the country. But a spate of recent deaths and the absence of her children, away at college, force Suzanne to confront the fact that her marriage is cold and empty. 
 When Suzanne meets Robert Parrish, a silver-haired banker from East Texas with a talent for real friendship with a woman and an appetite for sensual pleasure-suppressed for years in his own straight-laced marriage-she must decide between the secure life she chose after the shameful ending of her first, youthful love affair or the disdain of her children, the loss of friends and the financial uncertainty awaiting a woman who uproots her life in pursuit of the true intimacy she has long denied herself. With rare insight, keen social satire and some of the most touchingly rendered erotic scenes in recent memory, The Dangerous Age is above all a story about seizing ecstasy in our livesregardless of age, in spite of the consequences. 
"Set aside a block of uninterrupted time to read Jaffee's new novel... Her writing makes the reader feel everything, with the result being that this is a book that refuses to be put down. A touching and absorbing story that lingers long after the final page has been read; highly recommended."-Library Journal (starred review)
"The pages turn themselves."-Los Angeles Times Book Review 
"How glorious to give oneself up to a great late-in-life passion."-New York Times Book Review 
Annette Williams Jaffee is the author of Adult Education (Leapfrog) and Recent History (Putnam). She lives on the Delaware River in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

The Dangerous Age

United States

Leapfrog Press

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Adult Education

Adult Education

Adult Education

The Dangerous Age