Special Effects Author:Harriet Frank A novel in which humanity abounds, in which there is love, tolerance and humor. And at its center is a woman who is an authority on the art of life. Special Effects is a book that will make you laugh and cry and pay heed. — In Hollywood, the most expensive special effect is love. Emma is a modern, average woman, whose husband has left her and who... more » is attempting to pick up the pieces of her life.
You will recognize Emma. She is a modern woman, wife, mistress, mother, wage earner, and, most important, always herself. Optimistic, ironic, messy, marvelous, she is a lady with an inherent instinct for survival---which she needs. Her husband has wandered away in search of new love, her son has stumbled into an unpremeditated and ardent folly while she, astonished, plunges into a perilous, delicious, outrageous affair. And yet she succeds in navigating the fast-moving traffic jam at one of life's major intersections with an enviable blend of panache and common sense...« less