Four women reflect on the past at their college reunion in this "absorbing" novel of love, friendship, and secrets by a New York Timesbestselling author (The Washington Post).
"In Class Reunion, Rona Jaffe does what she does best.... A literary 'dessert,' with the unmistakable touch of a master chef." -Associated Press
Twenty years after their college graduation, four Radcliffe girls return to their Harvard class reunion with mixed emotions and curiosity. It is the first time they have met since their hopeful student years, when each of them had wonderful dreams of becoming wives, mothers, and successful career women. But much has changed since the fifties, and the former classmates' lives have been altered by events none of them could have foreseen. Humorous, heartwarming, often poignant and nostalgic, Class Reunion captures the spirit of the fifties brilliantly in contrast to the changing world the four girls have embraced, often with straightforward and pithy commentary on the social conventions of the past.
"It's the kind of book multitudes of people will read avidly.... It's difficult to put her novel down." -New York Daily News
"Ms. Jaffe's fans will love it.... Fast-paced and sympathetic.... Well-crafted.... Sensitive." -Houston Chronicle
Originally published in 1979.
About the Author :
Rona Jaffe (19312005) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Dalton School and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 at the age of nineteen. In her early twenties, she worked at Fawcett Publications, starting as a file clerk and working her way up to associate editor. At twenty-five, she quit her job to focus on her novel The Best of Everything(1958). She went on to write sixteen more books during her career including Mr. Right Is Dead(1965), The Other Woman(1972), Family Secrets(1974), Class Reunion(1979), The Road Taken(2000), and The Room-Mating Season(2001). In 1995, she established The Rona Jaffe Foundation, supporting promising emergent women writers. Jaffe died of cancer in 2005.
