The Life Room

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.

Author: Jill Bialosky
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780156034326

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/28/2008 pg. 20

About the Author
Bialosky, Jill: - JILL BIALOSKY is the author of the acclaimed novel House Under Snow and two collections of poetry, The End of Desire and Subterranean. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine. She is an editor at W. W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.