Elaine Kagan, Author . Morrow $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-018474-2
Writer and actress Kagan (The Girls) pens a domestic drama that turns on a romantic triangle. Jack North is a retired cop and grandfather of four, living seven hours from Los Angeles. Most of the time, Jack is a good husband to Linda, his wife of 35
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Elaine Kagan, Author Knopf Publishing Group $23 (307p) ISBN 978-0-679-43395-8
First-novelist Kagan is literate and intelligent, but her attempt at commercial fiction leaves a lot to be desired. The six ``girls'' who grew up together in Kansas City are now in their 50s, but they and their former boyfriends and current husbands
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Elaine Kagan, Author William Morrow & Company $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-688-15745-6
The social and cultural worlds of Jewish girls growing up in the Midwest figure in Kagan's previous novels, The Girls and Blue Heaven. Here, passion undermines an upper-middle-class Jewish family in 1959 Kansas City. The scorching love affair...
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Elaine Kagan, Author William Morrow & Company $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-688-15746-3
With crisp writing and swift pacing, actress and writer Kagan's third novel (after The Girls) presents a vision of Hollywood that's as saucy and outrageously unrealistic as Hollywood gets, and as entertaining. The story of three women whose lives...
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Elaine Kagan, Author Alfred A. Knopf $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43598-3
Three generations of women struggle to decipher their own passions and desires by comparing themselves to one another in this spirited novel from the author of The Girls. Mollie, 80, rendered incompetent by a series of small strokes, reminisces...
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