To The Precipice

This is a novel of a woman"s sexual odyssey.....Ruth Kossoff and David Landau have known each other all their lives, living in the same apartment building in New York City.....Now as teenagers they have become lovers and soul mates in the 1940's, but Ruth is very disatisfied with the poverty and squalor she lives in.....Because she has a great need to better her station in life she marries divorced Walter Stamm, a rich WASP man twice her age and has three children with him, but this is not the end of the story; it is only the beginning!.....I could hardly put this book down.