To all who came in contact with him, Ted Corcorans personality had an unique, potent effect: somehow his relaxed demeanor, clear, soothing voice and physical attractiveness made his words resonate as few others did. His opinion or advice, when asked for, invariably was taken and proved correct.From the time he first was told of his impact on others, he never overtly made capital of it since he didnt give credence to the flattery. He attributed his exceptional personal and business ...

It is the near-present: the end of the Twentieth Century. Jack Amory leaves his family-bequeathed Central Park West penthouse apartment to walk to a midtown Manhattan meeting. On this pristine May morning, he weighs the pros and cons of his present life, since his next birthday, his fiftieth, is on his fertile mind, along with another matter, far more pressing. He is broke. The once-in-demand new journalists story idea is rejected at The New Yorker. Later, as he strolls aimlessly along cro...

In affairs of the heart, is it possible for two adults, different as day from night in backgrounds, professions and life experiences, who fall in love, to extend their passion into a lasting relationship? Ostensibly Spencer King, a renowned astrophysicist at MIT in Boston and Charlotte Grace, a by-lined, free-lance photo-journalist in New York have little in common when they first meet other than their bachelorhood and age; he just over forty, she, thirty-five...and their physical attracti...

The colorful, morally complex life of Matthew Fleming, an actor of rare talent, from an impoverished but work-filled decade in Off-Broadway theaters through his 'overnight' success on Broadway - then on to international acclaim as a charismatic movie star - is the 'stuff of this gripping novel.Matt is haunted by the belief his leap from obscurity to fame wasn't due to his gift alone but also to the death of a wealthy lover, Andrea Whittaker. He is convinced her drowning, considered acciden...