An intelligent and perceptive story about a teenaged boy's affair with a married woman. Norma Klein writes vividly of "distinctly human adolescents who confront their problems with brain and wit." NEWSEEK
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From Publishers Weekly
When it comes to young adult books, Klein (Mom, the Wolf Man and Me) has shown herself to be a writer of wit and charm, a quality that extends to many of her adult titles as well (Give and Take). Her latest work falls into a murky area between these two camps, being a bit too sweet and juvenile for the second category, and perhaps a little too sophisticated for the first. At the start of his senior year in high school, Paul Gold is an aspiring playwright and a great, lolloping puppy of a guy. His even temper allows him to coexist equably with his young father, Phil, his remarried mother Penny, and even a disappointingly small, rather mangy dog named Baby that he walks after school. When Baby's owner, a young married woman named Zoe, responds to Paul's romantic overtures, he launches into a full-fledged affair of the heart. But while learning the rules of this game of love and deception, Paul is breaking other rules by writing about his experiences in school and out, and finding that life isn't often as simple as he'd hoped. Though the twists of his fate are fairly predictable, they amount to a warm and funny coming-of-age story set against a strong contemporary background.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
$16.95. f Klein's latest bittersweet portrayal of contemporary adolescence will delight readers, especially young adults. An intellectually gifted but sexually inexperienced high school senior, Paul Gold hopes to find his niche as a playwright. After a fumbling encounter with a close female friend and a later, more serious affair with a 22-year-old married woman, Paul gains a new maturity plus material for two plays. Fictionalizing the romantic involvements that changed his life, Paul ponders whether a writer can use personal experience without compromising his integrity or angering those who shared the experience. Despite the omission of even the most casual references to safe sex, Klein tells this contemporary story realistically and sympathetically. Highly recommended. Ellen R. Cohen, Rockville, Md.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific work by a terrific novelist (and not just YA genre),
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This review is from: That's My Baby (Hardcover)
I've always enjoyed reading reading well-crafted, non-formulaic YA novels (I'm also recommending them to my grandkids these days), and Klein is always a dependable author. She was something of a groundbreaker in the 1970s, but by the late `80s, when this one came out, teenage culture had changed radically. (Now, with the country sliding back into intellectually repressed puritanism, maybe she'll become a retro-groundbreaker.) Anyway, Paul Gold is a senior in an arts TAG high school in New York. He's a talented writer who dreams of someday seeing his plays produced on Broadway, but he's also in most ways your basic eighteen-year-old. A one-nighter with Sonya, his best female friend, which they both sort of fell into unplanned, and her recriminatory attitude afterward, lead him to write a play about the incident for production at school. (It's all grist, folks.) But then Sonya gets together with Wolf, Paul's best male friend, and the balancing act becomes painful. But that's only part of it! When Paul takes a job walking the small, ancient, ugly dog belonging to married, twenty-two-year-old Zoe, a warm, conflicted, sweet young woman you can't help but have warm feelings toward. They begin an affair that they know can't last, and it doesn't. But what could have been merely a late-adolescent fantasy in other hands, becomes a charming, bittersweet love story under Klein's guidance. She knows how complicated life really is. Nice ending, too.
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book is a very good book for teenagers to read.,
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This review is from: That's My Baby (Hardcover)
In this book there are a lot of different twisted. Paul Gold is the main charater in the book. He is seventeen and a Senoir in High School. He has a lot going for him right now. But just doesn't have it going on with the ladies. One day he takes a job walking a dog. He finds himself attracted to Zoe Bernstien the dogs owner. The ending of this book is very intersting and this book had a lot of surprizes. I think tis book it great for someone who likes to read about mixed up romances. I would recommend That's My Baby to the younger readers.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Thats my baby,
By Stephanie (Maine) - See all my reviews
This review is from: That's My Baby (Mass Market Paperback)
I thought the book made a lot of sense when you try and relate it to real life shiznit. ya know.
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