New York: Doubleday, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's third novel, set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, New York City, and in France. From the front flap: [this] 'brings readers into a world so real and beautifully drawn that one does not want the story to end. ..A chance meeting in a rainstorm becomes a defining moment of transforming emotion for graduate students Claire Marvel and Julian Rose, two people whose hearts have long been protected behind walls of wit, intelligence, and innate caution. Neither could imagine what lies in store for them: The unexpected unfolding over a dozen years of a great and difficult love.' Cover praise from Frank McCourt. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-38550344X.