The Life Room - Softcover

Bialosky, Jill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156034328 ISBN 13: 9780156034326

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2008

Synopsis

Eleanor Cahn, a professor of literature, wife of a preeminent surgeon, and devoted mother of two, is in Paris to present a paper on Anna Karenina. A chance encounter brings to the surface passions she has suppressed for years. As The Life Room unfolds, we learn the secrets of her erotic past: ethereal William, her high school boyfriend; her role as muse to troubled painter Adam; her marriage to loyal, steady Michael. On her return to New York, Eleanor's charged attraction to another man takes on a life of its own, threatening to destroy everything she has. Jill Bialosky has created a fresh, piercingly real heroine who must choose between responsibility and desire.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

PRAISE FOR THE LIFE ROOM

"Bialosky creates a character brave enough to look back and try to regenerate all the emotional intensity of her younger self. Eleanor Cahn's journey is not just a reawakening, but a reclamation of a vital part of herself long buried under domestic minutiae and the travails of balancing family and career."--The Boston Globe "Suspenseful . . . with a kind of reckless illogic that would do Tolstoy proud."--The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156034328
• ISBN 13: 9780156034326
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352