In "Life Drawing," her gorgeously written first novel, Robin Black
unfolds a fierce, honest, and moving portrait of a woman, and of a
couple's life--the betrayals and intimacies, the needs and regrets,
the secrets that sustain love and the ones that threaten to destroy
it.
Augusta and Owen have moved to the country, and live a quiet, and
rather solitary life, Gus as a painter, Owen as a writer. They have
left behind the city, and its associations to a troubled past,
devoting their days to each other and their art. But beneath the
surface of this tranquil existence lies the heavy truth of Gus's
past betrayal, an affair that ended, but that quietly haunts Owen,
Gus and their marriage.
When Alison Hemmings, a beautiful British divorcee, moves in next
door, Gus, feeling lonely and isolated, finds herself drawn to
Alison, and as their relationship deepens, the lives of the three
neighbors become more and more tightly intertwined. With the
arrival of Alison's daughter Nora, the emotions among them grow so
intense that even the slightest misstep has the potential to do
irrevocable harm to them all
With lyrical precision and taut, suspenseful storytelling, Black
steadily draws us deeper into a world filled with joys and
darkness, love and sorrows, a world that becomes as real as our
own. "Life Drawing" is a novel as beautiful and unsparing as the
human heart.
Praise for "Life Drawing"
"A brutal yet tender look at marriage and creative partnership that
hums with thriller-like tension . . . It might be the nearest thing
to a perfect novel that I have ever read."--"The Bookseller" (UK)
""Life Drawing" is a riveting story about the corrosive effects of
betrayal, and a beautifully written meditation on the delicate
balance of intimacy and isolation within a long marriage."--Alice
Sebold, author of "The Lovely Bones"
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""Life Drawing" is a magnificent literary achievement with a
combination of wisdom and velocity that distinguishes it from any
other novel I have read, an intimate revelation of love's unlikely
endurance and of art's role in reviving and redeeming the past, and
a heart-stopping, jaw-dropping thriller. I deeply loved Owen and
Gus, and I was pulling for them from the first page to the
last."--Karen Russell, author of "Swamplandia "
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""Life Drawing" is a rare and exquisitely wrought portrait of two
people equally devoted to their marriage and their art, a couple
striving to make sense of a dilemma in which fidelity, honesty,
kindness, and betrayal all make claims. The prose is admirably
exacting, tender, wise, and elegant--and the story left this
reader's heart aching."--David Wroblewski, author of "The Story of
Edgar Sawtelle
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"A wise, finely observed portrait of the workings of a marriage, as
compelling as it is convincing . . . "Life Drawing" is intelligent,
clear-eyed storytelling, exploring love and jealousy and the
mistakes we make in their name."--M. L. Stedman, author of "The
Light Between Oceans"
Praise for "If I loved you, I would tell you this"
"Pitch-perfect . . . so deft, so understated, and so compelling .
. . Fans of Mary Gaitskill, Amy Bloom, and Miranda July will feel
like they've found gold in a river when they discover Robin
Black.""--O: The Oprah Magazine"
"Each story reads like a mini-novel. . . . Worlds are contained in
a single page. And the writing . . . oh, the writing.""--San
Francisco Chronicle"
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