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4. Class Reunion, Jaffe (3)
3. Class Reunion, Jaffe (4)
Jaffe, it seems, hoped depth of character would make up for lack of direction and action in the plot lines. But each attempt at psychological depth, at developing a character or portraying a crucial moment comes off like so much slop thrown at these cardboard figures to keep the reader...
Class Reunion is not the worst of the recent books on Harvard. Unlike Enrique Lopez, author of The Harvard Mystique, Jaffe has no axe to grind with Harvard. She's not wailing about the decay of institutions of College Life, like Lansing Lamont in Campus Shock. Her stories read more...
JAFFE SEEMS to think she's hip. As she parades her characters through the wreckage of conventional mores and non-chalantly points out homosexuality, feminism, premarital sex and other seventies concepts, Jaffe strains to create a sense of insight, a feeling that she has artfully revealed new truths about our...