Michael Tillman is a rather conventionally unconventional economics professor in Cedar Bend (modeled on Cedar Falls?), Iowa. He rides around on a vintage motorcycle and avoids affairs with co-eds. He avoids affairs with everyone, in fact, until he locks eyes with Jellie Braden, wife of the new professor in town, a plodding, decent sort whom Jellie married at a time when she needed to calm her turbulent life. Yes, she's a woman with a past. Michael and Jellie struggle nobly to stay out of bed, and fail, but this is their destiny, after all.

Still, the new love is so overwhelming and confusing for Jellie that she heads off to India, where she confronts her complicated past. Her husband, a practical man, takes the blow passively, but romantic Michael cuts his classes short and tracks Jellie to a remote hotel. With a glitch or two, the two live happily ever after …

His send-up of campus sexual politics is quite amusing. And he has a gift for quick characterizations, describing one Indian woman's beautiful face as enough ""to launch a thousand Porsches back in the States.

"Waller may shortly have two entries on the best-seller lists, this one nuzzling cozily alongside The Bridges of Madison County. John Mort — From Booklist

• ISBN: 1558008764
• ISBN-13: 9781558008762
• Author : Robert James Waller
• Category : Fiction - General
• Format: 4 Cassettes - Search for other formats
• Abridgement: Unabridged
• Condition: As new
• Publisher Imprint: Elm Tree Books
• Price ($AUD): $14.95


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