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.