Another Smith student - can't remember if she stayed to graduate. I've never heard of Ms. Roiphe before (and see that she has written 18 books). This short book is pretty thrilling if you are interested in the literary world in the 1950's '60s. Ms. Roiphe writes a powerful story of a single woma...
NO SPOILERS!!!I have read other books by Anne Roiphe. I love the author's ability to create a time and place, to depict it with such detail that you see it, smell it, hear it and feel it. Again she succeeds with this, right from the beginning chapters of this novel. Here, in this story, we are tr...
Each month the moon moves across the night, larger and smaller, crescent and full, three quarters of the way, traveling back to the beginning. The tides come in with the gravitational pull of the moon and then they recede as it sends its rays down onto the swelling wa-ters even when human eyes ar...
She had arrived several weeks after the start of the second semester. She had brought with her two suitcases, a duffel bag of laundry, her bear that had shared her childhood bed, a book of Sylvia Plath poems that she always carried in her backpack, and a glazed look in her eyes. Her mother was af...