WHEN YOU'RE NEITHER A GIRL NOR A WOMAN... Maggie and Caroline are both seniors in high school and suddenly everything that seemed simple has become complicated. Thinking about sex, wondering about college, planning for careers -- there are so many c...
New Yorker Jody has what she thinks is a very liberated view of sex, while Midwesterner Lyle still thinks love means having to say you're sorry. "The trauma and confusion of the sexual coming-of-age by a liberated woman is presented with skill and un...
The paradoxes set up between love and sex in contemporary American life are explored with subtle insight and brilliantly incisive humor in this culturally prescient novel.Domestic Arrangements is about a recognizable family facing a recognizable dile...
Moving successively between 1970 and today, this novel recounts the course of the love of two women for one man in a masterly evocation of the evanescence of love and the cyclical patterns of human lives...
A frank, contemporary novel about a young couple experiencing love and sexual awakening for the first time. With candor and grace, BEGINNERS' LOVE explores the excitement and joy of a new relationship as well as the problems that can arise when two p...
Family dynamics are strained when Grandmother Gustel, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, moves in; though Charles, a high school senior, hopelessly tries to live a normal life, while his father refuses to recognize the problem....
Peter and Leslie's families have had beach houses near each other for years, so it seemed only natural when their friendship turned to romance. Their perfect summer romance is shattered when Leslie finds her mother's diary and discovers that her moth...
Paul Gold, an unworldly but intellectually precocious student playwright, becomes involved with an older, married woman and must find a a difficult balance between maintaining his personal convictions and feeding his growing success as a writer...
A seventeen-year-old unmarried father wins the rights to custody of his son in court; goes off to college in New York City, where he finds an apartment with three girls as roommates; and improves his relationship with his own father, always knowing h...
Everyone thinks of Isabel and Stuart as "just friends." So it's no big deal when their pals Ketti, Lois and Andria decide that Smart will be Ketti's next "love" target.
No one suspects the truth: that Iz has always thought of Stuart as hers, a...
"What effect does [the climate of censorship] have on a writer?....It's chilling. It's easy to become discouraged, to second-guess everything you write. There seemed to be no one to stand up to the censors....so I began to speak out about my experie...
A serial killer is stalking young, female strappers. No one knows who it is, why he's doing it, or who is likely to be next. The police and the race clubs seem powerless to do anything. The women are terrified and the union is threatening to go on...