Karen Russell, Author of Swamplandia!: “Robin Black is a writer who I want to recommend to every reader—she published her first book, the phenomenal story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This in her late forties, after raising three children, and she writes with exquisite precision, dark humor, and compassion about the tenderness as well as the savagery and terror of family and marriage. Her debut novel, Life Drawing, will be published this summer, and its a stunner—at its center is Gus, a painter who becomes complicit in a variegated affair that involves her husband and the new couple next door, a mother and her twenty-something daughter. For such a slender book, it does so much—its a meditation on female creativity, a love story and a ghost story, and a Greek tragedy staged in the contemporary American countryside. “In her deliciously controlled prose, Black shows us how even our best intentions can genie out of our grasp, preparing the table for what Robert Louis Stevenson called ‘the banquet of consequence.’” More here: elle/pop-culture/reviews/chick-lit-versus-lit-chicks-great-novel
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 13:47:57 +0000
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