Sweetwater: A Novel

Robinson, Roxana

ISBN 10: 037550916X / ISBN 13: 9780375509162

Published by Random House, 2003

Seller Inventory # 037550916X-3-23888359

Synopsis:

Isabel Green's marriage to Paul Simmons, after the death of her first husband, marks her reconnection to life - a venture she's determined will succeed. But this proves to be harder than she'd anticipated, and the challenges of starting afresh seem more complicated in adulthood. Staying at the Simmons lodge for their annual summer visit, Isabel finds herself entering into a set of familial complexities. She struggles to understand her new husband, his elderly, difficult parents and his brother, whose relationship with Paul seems oddly fraught. Furthermore, her second marriage begins to cast into sharp relief the troubling echoes of her first. Isabel's professional life plays a part as well: a passionate environmental advocate, she is aware of the tensions within the mountain landscape itself during a summer of spectacular beauty and ominous drought.

About the Author: Roxana Robinson is the author of two previous novels, a biography of Georgia O Keeffe and two short-story collections. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. Robinson s fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Harper s and Vogue. She lives in New York City and Westchester County, New York.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sweetwater: A Novel
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good