Student Body

The glib, cocky, but well-liked Rick O'Donnell seems to have it all: a loving wife and three beautiful little children, a coterie of wisecracking friends, the respect of his professors, and a bright future ahead of him in the ivied halls of academe.

The charming young professor-to-be, however, also hides a desperate secret: his brief, passionate affair with a hauntingly alluring girl who had been his own student just the semester before, and who now is a fellow teaching assistant with an office right down the hall from his. If the truth comes out, he stands to lose everything-his once-promising career, his marriage, perhaps even his life itself.

In a finely grained, allusive, sometimes lyrical tale that explores the secret needs of the human condition, the vulnerabilities and the confused motivations, the soul-searching and the angst, a man now struggles, even with his shortcomings and the wrongs he has committed, to do right. And yet as Rick is confronted with the one thing he cannot have revealed, he is forced in the desperate silence of his guilt to work through all the gnawing uncertainties and the memories he had thought were buried in the past.

Hailed as "vivid" and "emotional," "smoothly presented" and "carefully crafted," with an "unexpected conclusion...both believable and satisfying," the sensual, poignant literary drama "Student Body" is the frank and intimate tale of the harrowing week and a half which will decide a deeply conflicted man's entire future...and the lives of the women who love him.