The Haunting of Walter Rabinowitz
Judie Rae
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About the book
The novel, a story of obsessive love, is set in the late ‘80s; it is a sometimes-humorous psychological study of a woman in the throes of loss, a woman who listens to her heart but forgets to heed her head. (Nonetheless, when it comes to matters of the heart, millions of women will relate.) Effie returns to college to pursue another post-grad degree and is wooed by a professor, an age-old tale, though when the man in question dumps her, as he has many other coeds, Effie decides to exact revenge, not in a malicious way, though one certainly troubling to her mentor.) While Effie’s bright light is Walter Rabinowitz, she ultimately discovers that each of us must make our own myths. And hope to hell they last.
Author Bio
Judie Rae holds a Masters Degree in Professional Writing. She is the author of four books for young people, including a Nancy Drew Mystery. She also authored a college thematic reader, Rites of Passage (Thomson Heinle), and a poetry chapbook The Weight of Roses (Finishing Line Press). Her essays have appeared in The Sacramento Bee, as well as on San Francisco’s NPR station KQED. She has also written for Outside California, Tahoe Quarterly, and Sacramento Magazine, and online for Women’s Voices for Change. After twenty-seven years of teaching college English, Rae now concentrates on writing articles and essays primarily related to life in the Sierra Foothills, where, when she’s not writing or gardening, she enjoys hiking the many trails around Nevada County. For further information see author website: www.judierae.com
Book jacket blurbs
“Set in the creative writing world of '80s L.A. amid divorce, back-to-the-land garden plots, therapy, and the bonds of women's friendships, Judie Rae's tart and funny twist on the familiar interaction between charming male professors and adoring female students will make you laugh, groan, and perhaps reconsider your own potential for exacting revenge. (Extra credit for picking up the literary references.) Rae's protagonist Effie braids the strands of inner and outer dialogue with writing into a rope connecting her to new strength and understanding. This is one woman's determined venture toward being more fully herself.”
--Molly Fisk, First Poet Laureate of Nevada County, CA, and author of The More Difficult Beauty (poetry) and several essay collections, most recently Naming Your Teeth: Even More Observations from a Working Poet
“Judie Rae writes the internal landscape of the heart with keen insight and empathy. This is the story of the confusion that often comes with love and the will to forge through it and come out the other side.”
--Betsy Graziani Fasbinder, author of Fire & Water: A Suspense-filled Story of Art, Love, Passion, and Madness & Filling Her Shoes: A Memoir of an Inherited Family
“The narrative pace is quick…. But these main characters' inner struggles to live original lives are related to wider political / social events and currents of thought. In this sense the novel is a novel of ideas as well one of becoming.”
--Gene Berson, author of Raveling Travel, long-time California teacher and Poet in the Schools.
