The Dangerous Age

by Annette Williams Jaffee

The author of two exuberantly praised novels, Annette Williams Jaffee returns with a wise and sensual tale about pursuing the one great passion of our lives, not in our youth, but at that last... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0965457842
• ISBN13: 9780965457842
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Leapfrog Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

One of those rare, one-night, all-night reads!!!

The Dangerous Age is one of those rare, one-night, all-night reads. I could not put it down. Suzanne, like her literary predecessors, Emma Bovary, Anna Karenina, is a woman whom others assume has it all...all except the one thing that makes life worth living: an intimate partner, a true love. What I most respected about this book was the author's honesty, her willingness to plumb the depths of a mature woman's sexuality down to the details of what is whispered (and revealed) in bed. We surely see a surfeit of twenty and thirty-somethings in bed, but the beauty of The Dangerous Age is that in a society obsessed with youth, it dares label a mother of grown children fully, sexually alive. Read on one level, that of its sensual descriptions of travel and food, the book reminded me of Under the Tuscan Sun; on another, because of its compact size and its focus on one passionate couple, it made me think of Eric Segal's Love Story. But my hunch is that this book will be around for many years, that women, and, yes, men (because the male lead is extremely real) will find it to be a worthwhile and stirring portrait of an intense love found late in life.