New York Time [Paperback]

Richard Peck (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Dell Publishing (February 1982)
• ISBN-10: 0440163323
• ISBN-13: 978-0440163329
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,300,535 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Richard Peck has written over twenty novels, and in the process has become one of America's most highly respected writers for young adults. A versatile writer, he is beloved by middle graders as well as young adults for his mysteries and coming-of-age novels. He now lives in New York City. In addition to writing, he spends a great deal of time traveling around the country attending speaking engagements at conferences, schools and libraries...Mr. Peck has won a number of major awards for the body of his work, including the Margaret A. Edwards Award from School Library Journal, the National Council of Teachers of English/ALAN Award, and the 1991 Medallion from the University of Southern Mississippi. Virtually every publication and association in the field of children s literature has recommended his books, including Mystery Writers of America which twice gave him their Edgar Allan Poe Award. Dial Books for Young Readers is honored to welcome Richard Peck to its list with Lost in Cyberspace and its sequel The Great Interactive Dream Machine...

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This review is from: New York Time (Paperback)

At 38, Barbara Renfrew has a pretty good life. Back in college she had the foresight to marry the Boy Most Likely to Succeed and he did. Now they have settled down in a perfectly serviceable marriage in a center-hall colonial on Chicago's North Shore.

In fact, Barbara's grown a touch smug in the sort of suburb where the crabgrass has long since been subdued by pachysandra. About the only thing that sets her life-style apart from the norm, in a village where the neighborhood kids spend sleepovers discussing designer labels, is that Barbara and Tom are childless.

But hardly footloose, until Tom comes home one fatal night and says he's being transferred to New York...the city, not the state.

We see Barbara and Tom struggle for equilibrium in the heart of New York's East Side, after all those years of separate bathrooms, lawn services, and orderly cocktail parties conducted in a fog of Arpege and Old Spice.

We see them swap their spacious center-hall colonial for a two-room Manhattan co-op in the sort of building where Rosemary's baby could grow to manhood without exciting comment. We see their marriage go down the drain.

And we see Barbara rise from the ruins of her marriage to find herself and the real meaning of love, as she heads out after the life she has always wanted.