CLASS REUNION

Rating:
Summary: More Fun than a Real Class Reunion!
Review: A must-read, at least every 5 years before your own class reunion. You'll identify w/each character...the odds are, one will be reminiscent of yourself, another of your best friend! So much so, you'll be wondering if Rona Jaffe stole your diary!! The trials & tribulations of 4 friends, each w/a distinct personality, culture & lifestyle. Linked by memories which are endearing, poignant, humorous, sexual, sometimes shocking. It's typifies life's roller coaster ride. Only the real world could be so unbelievable & unpredictable. A literary hot fudge sundae!

Rating:
Summary: One of Jaffe`s best novels
Review: Maybe 15 years ago I first read "Class Reunion", not knowing at that time that there exists a sequel called "After the Reunion".
I really loved "Class Reunion" and read it several times over the last years.
Of course I wanted to read other Jaffe novels, but only two more were published in Germany, "The last Chance"(which I found as excellent as "Class Reunion") and "The Best of Everything" which I found kind of hard to read and a bit boring, but the movie with Joan Crawford is very good, much better than the book. Very dramatic, a soap opera.
There`s only one other American novelist that I can recommend as much as Rona Jaffe, and that`s Nancy Thayer.

Rating:
Summary: College in the 1950s
Review: This is a wonderful novel that tells the story of 4 college girls coming of age in the 1950s: Emily-The Idiot, Chris-The Intellectual, Susan-the Golden Girl, and Annabelle-the Harvard Wh*&#.

Each has her own personality, issues, and baggage they bring with them and deal with throughout the novel.

There is a strong sense of movement and travel from one point and time to the next as this novel spans the 1950's, 60s, and into the 1970s, and it is fun travelling along with these girls's adventures as they navigate through life.

This is easily one of Rona Jaffe's best.