Roxana Robinson

What does love demand of us and who must pay the price

What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price?Absorbing...haunting. Meg Woltizer, author of The WifeHigh school sweethearts, Sarah and Warren, have grand plans for an adventurous future together, but when a misunderstanding causes them to part ways, they end up marrying other people.When they meet again at sixty, their lives have been carved into very different shapes. Sarah lives outside New York; Warren lives in Boston. Sarah is divorced, Warren still married, and both have grown up children. When they reconnect, they feel the rekindled spark of love and desire - a spark that has been dead for so long. But are they willing to risk destroying all that they have built separately for the chance of a future together?Classic... Id read any story she has to tell. Amity Gage,New York TimesSmart, seductive. Daily Mail

Edited and with an Introduction by Bryant MangumForeword by Roxana RobinsonBenediction Head and Shoulders Bernice Bobs Her Hair The Ice Palace The Offshore Pirate May Day The Jelly Bean The Diamond as Big as the Ritz Winter Dreams AbsolutionIn the euphoric months before and after the publication of This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the flappers historian and poet laureate of the Jazz Age, wrote the ten stories that appear in this unique collection. Exploring characters and themes that would appear in his later works, such as The Beautiful and Damned and The Great Gatsby, these early selections are among the very best of Fitzgeralds many short stories. This Modern Library Paperback Classic includes notes, an appendix of nonfiction essays by Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and their contemporaries, and vintage magazine illustrations.

In Roxana Robinsons lucid and elegant prose, her characters inner worlds open up to us, revealing private emotional cores that are familiar in their needs, their secrets, and their longings. These people tell us the truthnot only about themselves, their relationships, and their lives, but about ourselves as well.In Family Christmas, a young girl takes a holiday trip to her grandparents, where the formal atmosphere is shattered by a mysterious and chaotic event that she knows shes too young to understand but struggles to comprehend. In Blind Man, a college professor copes with the onslaught of grief after his daughters death. In The Face Lift, two college friends renew their bond across a great cultural divide. The sad and hilarious Assistance flawlessly details the tragicomic aspects of ageingseen through the eyes of a daughter-turned-caretaker. The terrors of illness are explored in The Treatment, and in Assez, a trip to Provence reveals the true volatility of loveand reminds us that we often dont realize that what we have is enough until its gone. A Perfect Stranger powerfully and affectingly examines the complex, intricate network of experiences that binds us to one another. These stories are tender, raw, lovely, and fineand they reaffirm Roxana Robinsons place at the forefront of modern literature.

In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar terrainNew York City and the Adirondacksbut with Sweetwater she transcends the particulars of the domestic sphere with a broader, more encompassing vision. In this poignant account of a young widow and her second marriage, Robinson expands her scope to include the larger natural world as well as the smaller, more intimate one of the home. Isabel Greens marriage to Paul Simmons, after the death of her first husband, marks her reconnection to lifea venture shes determined will succeed. But this proves to be harder than shed 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. Isabels 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.In her cool, elegant prose, Robinson gracefully delivers a plot that is complex, surprising and ultimately wrenching in its impact. As the strands of family are woven tightly and inevitably together, and as the past painfully informs the present, the vivid backdrop of the physical world provides its own eloquent dynamic. Sweetwater is a stunning achievement by a writer at the peak of her craft.

Powerful, moving and gripping, this is an extraordinary novel about the ways that secrets and lies can tear a family apart. When Julia Lambert settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationship with her father, a retired but demanding neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending, unnoticed, into Alzheimers. But a shattering revelation intrudes: her youngest son Jack, far from being the charming and much-loved maverick of the family, has spiralled into heroin addiction. Desperate to save him, Julia calls on all the members of her loose-knit family: her elderly parents; remarried ex-husband; detached sister; and combative eldest son. As heroin sweeps through each of their lives, with its impersonal and devastating energy, it drags the family into a world in which deceit, crime and fear are part of daily life. In her cool, elegant prose, Robinson delivers a novel of loss and love that is complex, surprising and breathtaking in its pace.

This is without question the best book ever written on O'Keeffe' New YorkerBorn on a wheat farm in Wisconsin in 1887, the second of seven children, Georgia O'Keeffe had her eyes wide open to the beau

Georgia O'Keeffe, como pintora, maduró con el modernismo estadounidense. Participó en el movimiento sufragista antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial y la oleada feminista de la década de 1970 la aclamó