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Lin has a husband, two daughters, and close friends. But dance is her passion. Inescapably, it imposes itself upon her, until the inevitable moment when she must choose between her family life and the all-consuming world of dance to which she aches to return.
Slow Emergencies conveys an irresistible impulse to create, and illustrates the emotional turmoil that ensues for Lin and her family. Nancy Huston, award-winning author of The Mark of the Angel, writes brilliantly here about the passage of time, the body's vulnerability, and the solitude of creative endeavor. What results is a deeply felt novel that offers a disquieting but profoundly moving meditation on just what it means to be an artist."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
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"Spare, elegant .... I can think of no other novel that so honestly and deeply explores the experience of the artist." -- Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall
"A sensitive, sweeping account of the difficulty of reconciling maternal and artistic callings"-Publishers Weekly "A haunting story about an uncommon subject"-Library Journal "One wakes from this novel as from a spell of urgent, slow-motion dreams. . . . Slow Emergencies is full of the elements of enchantment." -- The Washington Post"Told simply and without pretense. . . . Huston deserves bravos for her portrayal of how motherhood devours the mother."- Book
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A native of Calgary and of New Hampshire, Nancy Huston now lives in Paris; she writes in both French and English. The author of nine novels and numerous works of nonfiction, she has won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéen, the Prix du Livre-Inter, the Prix Elle, and the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French.
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0375709207
- ISBN 13 9780375709203
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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