Synopsis
Nora, a writer in search of inspiration, phones her ex-lover Isaac, a photographer who is about to turn in his camera, re-igniting their romance and re-invigorating their creativity. By the author of Starting Out in the Evening. 30,000 first printing.
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About the Authors
Brian Morton is the author of The Dylanist and Starting Out in the Evening. He has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Koret Jewish Book Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Foundation Award, and has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He lives in New York City.
Brian Morton teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University.
From the Back Cover
The award-winning author of Starting Out in the Evening has written a beautiful and tender story that explores the conflicts between the empathic requirements of love and the sometimes brutal honesty of art.
PRAISE FOR STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
"Such a pleasure to read ... nothing less than a triumph." -- William H. Pritchard, The New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful ... gentle and wise." -- Detroit Free Press
"Elegant ... rich with language and ideas." -- Forward
"[A] finely tuned serious novel that conjures a fully formed and vibrant sense of life in all its complexity and eccentric character." -- Elle
"Wonderful ... this is what a novel is supposed to be. There may be young novelists who are more daring, or work on a larger scale. I can't think of one who combines brains with tenderness the way Brian Morton does." -- Charles Taylor, Newsday
PRAISE FOR STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING
"Such a pleasure to read ... nothing less than a triumph." -- William H. Pritchard, The New York Times Book Review
"Wonderful ... gentle and wise." -- Detroit Free Press
"Elegant ... rich with language and ideas." -- Forward
"[A] finely tuned serious novel that conjures a fully formed and vibrant sense of life in all its complexity and eccentric character." -- Elle
"Wonderful ... this is what a novel is supposed to be. There may be young novelists who are more daring, or work on a larger scale. I can't think of one who combines brains with tenderness the way Brian Morton does." -- Charles Taylor, Newsday
From the Inside Flap
Isaac and Nora haven't seen each other in five years, yet when Nora phones Isaac late one night, he knows who it is before she's spoken a word -- he recognizes her silence. Soon the two are rediscovering their love. Isaac, a photographer, is thinking about giving up his artistic career, while Nora, a writer, is rededicating herself to hers. Nora is on fire with the best work she's ever done, until she realizes that the story she's writing has turned into a fictionalized portrait of Isaac -- a pitiless portrait of his frailties and compromises that he is sure to view as a betrayal.
How to remain faithful to one's calling if it estranges us from the people we love; how to remain in love after we have seen the very worst of our loved ones -- these are some of the problems that Brian Morton explores with the same depth and compassion that marked his previous work.
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