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Roxana Robinson's great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to literary greats like John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In her first novel, we meet Laura, a 29-year-old wife, mother, sister, friend, lover, and erstwhile photographer whose life is painfully out of focus. A month's vacation on the Maine coast with her son, her lover, Ward, and her sister's family is supposed to be an idyllic period of sustenance and calm, but for Laura, who believes that ""entropy governed the world, the universe, and the dinner hour,"" it turns into the ultimate test of her ability to trust herself and others. With trademark intensity and a deft touch for character and place, Robinson creates a perceptive, believable, and gently humorous portrait of an individual ""waiting for something that would set her life in order."" Laura is as much a study of light and shadow as the photographs she takes. Beautiful but insecure, talented but unwilling to take risks, loved but unable to make a commitment, she is paralyzed by fear and locked into a stasis that Ward is no longer willing to accept. ""You don't dare take a stand on anything,"" he tells her. ""You're so terrified of failure you don't dare do anything."" When her estranged husband arrives for a weekend visit, however, the emotional collision rocks Laura's inaction, causing a tiny shake of the kaleidoscope that creates a vastly different pattern. The image is razor sharp at last: ""As though she were changing lenses, as though she had suddenly discovered another light source,"" she sees that her life is her own. That new understanding empowers her to make a symbolic -- and a literal -- leap of faith that saves her own life and the lives of those she loves.
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- ÉditeurLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Date d'édition1987
- ISBN 10 0460047418
- ISBN 13 9780460047418
- ReliureRelié
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages156
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Summer Light
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J M Dent & Sons, London
(1987)
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ. ; Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. DJ artwork by Elizabeth Pyle. ; 160 pages; Laura sometimes felt that she had spent her life listening to men telling her that things would work when she knew they wouldn't: her vacuum cleaner, her carburettor, her marriage. First there had been her father, then her husband, then her lover, and now Ward, who wants to be her second husband. In her usual fatalistic way, Laura decides to rent an old beach house in Maine with Ward and her sister's family and let events take their course. But over the summer she begins to realise it's time she grew up. N° de réf. du vendeur 11008
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Edité par
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(1987)
ISBN 10 : 0460047418
ISBN 13 : 9780460047418
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Description du livre Blue hardback cloth cover. Etat : VG : in very good condition. First Edition. 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 156pp. With dust jacket. N° de réf. du vendeur d0940
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