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A chance encounter with Stephen, a childhood friend with whom she has shared a complicated relationship, during a trip to Paris, forces Eleanor Cahn, a literature professor, wife of a leading cardiac surgeon, and devoted mother, to reevaluate her life, her erotic past, and the passionate woman she has suppressed for years. By the author of House Under Snow. Reprint.
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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.
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