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Author | Robert James Waller |
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Cover artist | Honi Werner |
Language | English |
Publisher | Warner Books (US) |
Publication date | 1993 |
Publication place | United States |
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Pages | 197 |
ISBN | 0-446-51653-8 |
Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend is a novel by Robert James Waller. It was the third highest seller in the US in 1993, after Waller's Bridges of Madison County , to which this book was his followup, [1] and John Grisham's The Client . Over two million copies were in print by the end of 1993. [2] Like the main protagonist, Waller was an economics professor and so draws on his own experiences teaching at Northern Iowa University . [3]
Michael Tillman is an unconventional Iowa tenured economics professor, rides a vintage motorcycle and walks barefoot as he teaches Boolean Algebra. He feels an immediate attraction to Jellie Braden when she walks into a dean's reception with her husband Jimmy. Their common experiences links Jellie and Michael together in India and within a year the affair is consummated. Jellie then disappears to India and Michael heads to Pondicherry to find Jellie and her complicated past. He eventually tracks her down to a hotel on Periyar Lake and her secrets are revealed... [4] [5]