![]() ![]() He stumbles, in language, in memory, and, eventually, in movement. After a Guggenheim and a Mellon, he wins a MacArthur, but at the age of fifty-seven, things begin to go awry. ![]() ![]() Crisply and at breakneck speed in a brief first section, we learn that Pru Steiner has always had a weakness for older men, so it’s no surprise when she falls for Spence Robin, her charismatic but only slightly older Shakespeare professor at Columbia.Īfter that the novel takes on more texture and depth as it develops the story of a marriage and an oddly blended family. 304 pages.ĪT FIRST IT APPEARS that Morningside Heights is yet another campus tale of the professor-meets-grad-student variety, but Joshua Henkin’s new novel quickly sidesteps formula. ![]()
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