On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to her youth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with the artists who defined their times. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope – interviewer and interviewee – try to understand one another across the gulf of age, experience and time that lies between them. And subtly, as each comes to know the other, their relationship changes . . .
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(Shillington, Pennsylvania, 1932) es autor de más de cincuenta libros, entre los que se cuentan, con ésta, veinte novelas. Además de haber sido galardonado en dos ocasiones con el Premio Pulitzer (en 1982 y 1991), en 1982 obtuvo el American Book Award.