Summer Light - Softcover

Robinson, Roxana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060974079 ISBN 13: 9780060974077

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

This is the story of a young woman hovering between careers, between marriages, between lives - and of the summer that throws her off balance and onto her feet. It was supposed to be a tranquil family holiday, but it doesn't quite turn out that way. Roxanna Robinson is the author of "A Glimpse of Love".

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Review

Newsday"

Robinson's writing is almost flawless. She is a sharp observer . . . [who] goes after emotions we want to understand fragile love, nervous lust, coldness, and regret. Newsday"

Dramatic, fast-paced, boasting both engaging characters and an optimistic resolution of its conflict, this well-written novel will make good summer reading. Library Journal"

-Robinson's writing is almost flawless. She is a sharp observer . . . [who] goes after emotions we want to understand - fragile love, nervous lust, coldness, and regret.- --Newsday

-Dramatic, fast-paced, boasting both engaging characters and an optimistic resolution of its conflict, this well-written novel will make good summer reading.---Library Journal

"Robinson's writing is almost flawless. She is a sharp observer . . . [who] goes after emotions we want to understand - fragile love, nervous lust, coldness, and regret."-- "Newsday"

"Dramatic, fast-paced, boasting both engaging characters and an optimistic resolution of its conflict, this well-written novel will make good summer reading."-- "Library Journal"

From the Back Cover

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 John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In this new paperback edition of 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060974079
• ISBN 13: 9780060974077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200