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Byline: Megan O'grady
The moment 48-year-old Marian Kahn, a history professor, best-selling author, and Park Avenue native, falls for Oliver Stern, a handsome flower-shop owner 22 years her junior, an affair ensues torrid enough to make Demi and Ashton blush. But the December-May romance at the center of Jean Hanff Korelitz's The White Rose (Miramax Books) is as deeply affectionate as it is lustful-not to mention clandestine: Marian is married, and Oliver happens to be her oldest friend's son.
Fear of discovery fuels this novel of trysts and twists, beginning with the inopportune arrival at Marian's apartment of her ...