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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"
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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 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.
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Summer Light
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J M Dent & Sons, London, 1987
ISBN 10: 0460047418
ISBN 13: 9780460047418
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Seller: Darkwood Online T/A BooksinBulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: 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. Seller Inventory # 11008