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Synopsis
Jamie Grenne, a handsome forty-year-old history professor, leaves his brilliant and beautiful wife for a red-haired graduate student with a trust-fund, but everything changes after Jamie learns that his wife is pregnant
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From Publishers Weekly
Jamie Greene is 40 years old, a tenured professor of history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and recently separated from his wife Ellen Ornstein, the phenomenally successful owner of a New York ad agency. Boyishly good-looking, possessed of charm, intelligence and the extramarital favors of an exorbitantly sexy and wealthy student, Jamie believes he's navigating midlife without a major crisis. Then Ellen informs him that the romp they shared his last night at home has resulted in a pregnancy. She asks him to be a father to the baby while staying out of her life. The prospect of fatherhood casts a decidedly different light on Jamie's self-satisfaction and gives rise to emotional confusions that are the subject of this hilarious and superbly modern coming-of-age novel. Subplots involve a $15-million suit against the university (the charge is pro-Semitism by the tenure committee); Ellen's reconciliation with her mother (who calls herself Mrs. Doctor Ornstein); and Jamie's resolution of his own parentless childhood (he was raised by three bachelor uncles, who collectively deserve this year's award for best fictional minor character). Funny, generous and witty, Cohen's second novel (after Falling Out takes sharp pokes at the mores of affluent, semi-intellectual city life, while celebrating the timeless joys and pains of growing up into parenthood. Paperback rights, Pocket Books.
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From Library Journal
Sexy 40-year old history professor Jamie Greene thinks he's survived male menopause quite well. He has lost a lot of weight, a little hair, and his wife of 15 yearssuccessful advertising executive Ellen Ornstein. He has taken up Armani suits, Thai cooking, bowling, and 23-year-old graduate student heiress Darlene Eagleson. When Ellen calls with the news that he's about to become a father, Jamie has a good deal of adjusting (and maturing) to do. This novel recounts his progress using dialogue as trendy and fast-paced as Jamie himself. But even Cohen's "lite" style can't quite succeed in making Jamie seem sympathetic instead of spoiled. Wait for the movie. William C. McCully, Park Ridge P.L, Ill.
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- PublisherPiatkus
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0861886410
- ISBN 13 9780861886418
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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