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"You won't be able to stop till it's done." — The New York Times Book Review
Suspenseful, captivating, and ultimately moving, The Last Chance is about four female friends in their late thirties trying to survive the dangerous and fast-paced world of New York City while also battling the subtle violence in their private lives. Each of them has dreams of finding love, success, and adventure in the big city. Each is desperately searching for a last chance. They will make difficult choices and face unbearable consequences, and by the end of the year, one of the women will die an unnatural and uncanny death . . .
The Last Chance is a tense and unexpected story about what it takes to survive and find control over your fate when everything seems to be working against you.
"Her biggest success. . . . Rona Jaffe vividly portrays the four women's feelings, their relationships with each other, and their wide variety of men as The Last Chance moves with speed and suspense toward its shocking climax." —Literary Guild
Originally published in 1976.
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About the author
Rona Jaffe (1931–2005) was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended the Dalton School and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1951 at the age of nineteen. In her early twenties, she worked at Fawcett Publications, starting as a file clerk and working her way up to associate editor. At twenty-five, she quit her job to focus on her novel The Best of Everything (1958). She went on to write sixteen more books during her career including Mr. Right Is Dead (1965), The Other Woman (1972), Family Secrets (1974), Class Reunion (1979), The Road Taken (2000), and The Room-Mating Season (2001). In 1995, she established The Rona Jaffe Foundation, supporting promising emergent women writers. Jaffe died of cancer in 2005.
