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 ...
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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 isAn engaging, engrossing, sometimes wallopingly funny novel...The discovery of Jaffee is a delight.-The Los Angeles TimesA wonderful novel; funny and heartbreaking, cruelly satiric and tender.-Joyce Carol OatesAn exuberant chronicle of growing upa poignant and funny and wholly recognizable picture of our times.-Rosellen BrownFervent 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 PostA 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.
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Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Previous owners name on end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Good in Good jacket. Ex-Library. 8vo-7¾"-9¾" Tall. Jacket is in brodart, light wear. Boards have light wear. Usual library/discard markings. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
Publisher:
Princeton, New Jersey, The Ontario Review Press [1981].
Published:
1981
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
9366692180
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. 8vo. Dust jacket with etching by Matt Phillips (unclipped). Fine. 230 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Notable for the dust jacket blurbs by Joyce Carol Oates and Lynne Sharon Schwartz. Signed by Annette Williams Jaffee on the half title page.
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Princeton, NJ 1981 first edition. Ontario Review. Hardcover octavo. 230p. very Near Fine (just slight foxing on closed page ends) in Fine dj. no owner marks.
