| Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend | |
| Author: | Robert James Waller |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Cover Artist: | Honi Werner |
| Publisher: | Warner Books (US) |
| Release Date: | 1993 |
| Media Type: | |
| 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] Waller was himself an economics professor at Northern Iowa University and so writes about his experiences about the main protagonist.[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 in 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]