![]() ![]() It is a saga, with many an unseemly turn, that contains such sharp observations as the hapless divorcé's "sexuality that of a small boy promised a reward he is too timid to collect". She abandons, for a while, the boy she had intended to marry, in favour of the divorced father of her charges. This book, set in the 1950s, is a long, naturalistic account of a young woman whose summertime tutorial job with a rich Manhattan family rescues her from a roach- ridden tenement. She set one novel aside, and then, after the birth of her daughter and son, she put five years' effort into To The Precipice. ![]() An enjoyable job in the advertising department of Scientific American hampered her desire to write, and she moved to a more mundane real-estate office. The writer was born Judith Perelman in New York, grew up partly in the Bronx, and, after a wild adolescence given to truancy from Taft High School, went to City College she left at 19 to marry teacher and writer Robert Rossner. ![]()
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