From the writer whose voice Carolyn See has characterized as one of
the strangest, most distinguished in American fiction writing today
("There is really nothing to compare her with, except, maybe, the
austere beauty of a Japanese rock garden"), here is a richly
dramatic novel about a woman struggling to make peace with herself
as a mother, a lover, an artist, and a friend.
Lucy Patterson has just encountered her past in the person of a man
whom she has not seen for twenty-five years. Dr. Carlos Cabrera
saved the life of her infant son, and it was her love for him that
compelled her to end her marriage -- the first moment in an arc of
emotional turbulence and upheaval that has since defined her
existence. Her past having caught up with her, Lucy has come to an
isolated motel in the desert outside Las Vegas to write out her
life, reexamine it, and, she hopes, find its calm center. It's a
journey she is determined to make alone, but in the next room is a
young woman -- a single mother, stripper, and prostitute panicked
about her own life -- whom Lucy finds she cannot, and finally does
not want to, ignore. A fiercely odd pair, they nonetheless become
indispensable to each other in navigating the emotional terrain of
their past and in finding, separately and together, clear paths
into the future.
A Desert of Pure Feeling is the finest work we have yet seen from a
writer whose gifts, at once lyrical and tough-minded, become
vividly apparent in this penetrating and compelling story.
"From the Hardcover edition.
General
| Imprint: |
Vintage Books
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
May 1997 |
| First published: |
June 1997 |
| Authors: |
Judith Freeman
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| Edition: |
1st Vintage contemporaries ed |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-679-75271-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
0-679-75271-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780679752714 |
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