Rossner set a number of her novels in her native New York City, but one of her more popular works, “Emmeline” (1980), is a period piece set in New England. “She was very perceptive, very witty and very sharp, and she wrote the way she was,” Sarris said. She had great insight into human behavior and was a born storyteller.”įilm critic Andrew Sarris, another friend, said Rossner was a highly social woman who had many friends. “She wrote in the tradition of the psychological novel. “Judy was one of a kind,” said Donna Brodie, executive director of the collective and a longtime friend of Rossner. Rossner wrote most of “August” in a loft space in Greenwich Village called The Writers Room, a collective space where she was a member. “The unraveling of Dawn’s secrets and the ups and downs of Lulu’s life are as absorbing as a good mystery story,” a Washington Post book reviewer wrote in 1983. Gradually it becomes clear that Henley’s therapist has a personal story as complicated as her own. The book’s title refers to the summer month when most therapists go on vacation, a dreadful time for Henley, who lives in fear of abandonment.
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