The Four Temperaments - Hardcover

When Oscar Kornblatt, fifty-five-year-old lead violinist with the New York City Ballet, falls in love with Ginny Valentine, an eighteen-year-old dancer in the corps de ballet, he sets in motion a devastating train of events. For while he expects his affair with Ginny - young, vivacious and ambitious - to be brief, he does not expect her to fall in love with his son. Gabriel, like his father, is transfixed by Ginny. And, his marriage to the beautiful but highly unstable Penelope already crumbling, he begins a passionate long-distance affair with his father's ex-lover. But as Oscar and his wife Ruth fail in their struggles to separate their eldest son from the dancer who has bewitched him, disaster starts to seem inevitable...

Yona McDonough holds degrees from Vassar and Columbia. She is the editor of and a contributor to The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty - a collection of essays by writers including Jane Smiley, Anna Quindlen, Carol Shields and Erica Jong - as well as All the Available Light: A Marilyn Monroe Reader. She has written several children's books and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Four Temperaments is her first novel.