Wife and Mother
"Saturday night. Fall, 1958. A dormitory at Winterford College for Women. John Ash yells from the lobby, "Anybody want a date?" Carolyn Lyman accepts. Four months, two dates and one sexual encounter later, they stand beside each other as duly-wedded man and wife, parents of a soon-to-be-born child. Despite their initial differences, they work out a life together that many people would envy. Carolyn sees that John is not just the aggressive, arrogant young man to whom she indifferently surrendered her virginity but someone who, above all else, desires to be the success that his father never was. For his part, John realizes that Carolyn is a good deal more than an easy lay for whom he has shouldered responsibility, that she is, in fact, a wife to be proud of and love within his own meaning of the word. Uniting them, giving them a common bond, is their son, Alex."--Jacket flap.