Mating Habits of Fireflies: A Novel - Couverture souple

St. Clair, M. C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798990543805

Editeur : Cathee vanRossem-St.Clair Fine Art, 2024

Synopsis

From BookLife Prize Critic’s Report:

“Mating Habits of Fireflies is a beautifully executed novel set in late 1960s-1970s California and Italy. Protagonist Emily Rowan, a deeply intuitive woman who interprets the world via her art, discovers a kindred soul in musician Danny Jackson, only to have their powerful connection interrupted by the Vietnam War.”

“…St. Clair's prose style is fluid, lyrical, and hypnotic…”

“Mating Habits of Fireflies is a richly told love story that is also deeply evocative of the era in which it is set. Music, art, and sensuality infuse the accomplished storytelling.”


“...Firefly was the nickname for the cluster of searchlights attached to the Huey looking for Danny that night. A rotating mount aimed the beam across an arc twenty to thirty degrees forward and aft, up and down. It blinded everyone. The entire system weighed ninety-nine pounds—more than Emily did at the time.

Chiaroscuro. Light versus dark. Caravaggio could have painted the scene. Emily pictured the artist working in his dark studio, illuminating Danny’s face by shining light through a hole in the ceiling and projecting the image onto stretched linen. Va bene, li vediamo, he might have said. Yes, we see them, his eyes, how they flicker with fear, like Isaac’s eyes flashed when his father, Abraham, tried to kill him. She could see the sixteenth-century Italian crushing luminescent bodies of fireflies, drowning them in white lead, and preparing his canvas with the potion to fix the image in her mind.

The image. The incident. The fear.”

—from Mating Habits of Fireflies by M.C. St.Clair

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cathee vanRossem-St.Clair Fine Art
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798990543805
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 356
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