La storia d’amore tra Sarah e Warren, ai tempi del college, è finita in un attimo, quasi senza motivo. Decenni più tardi, quando, ormai sessantenni, si incontrano per caso in un teatro di New York, la passione tra loro si riaccende, dando vita a un amore travolgente e del tutto inaspettato che li costringe a rimettere in discussione ogni cosa. Dopo la fine della loro relazione giovanile entrambi si sono sposati, hanno messo su famiglia e hanno fatto carriera. Ora Sarah è divorziata e vive ...

**"Wondrous.…This insightful, complex story about a late-in-life romance is unforgettable." —Joan Frank, The Washington PostWhat risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Kirkus Reviews • One of the Los Angeles Times's '15 Best Books of the Year' • A Chicago Public Library Must-Read of 2024**“I never thought I’d see you here,” Sarah says. Then she adds, “But I ...

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 ...

Short stories of upper-class domestic life by an award-winning literary talent: " Asking for Love delighted me no end" (Alice Munro).Whether it's a woman who must accept the reality of her son growing up, or a daughter becoming disillusioned with her father, this moving collection expertly conveys the joys, doubts, fears, and endless contradictions that are inescapable parts of domestic life. In "Mr. Sumarsono," included in The Best American S...

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 Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: her youngest son Jack, far from being the charming and much-loved ...

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 terrain—New York City and the Adirondacks—but 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, R...

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 beauty of nature from the very beginning, and by her twenties had become a formidable artist, and a strikingly original and spirited young woman. Moving first to Chicago and then to New York to pursue her studies, her consciousness was enlarged by her discovery of ...

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great American artists of the twentieth century. Coming of age during the rise of American modernism, O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships – with the great ferment of ideas in modern art, with family, friends and especially noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz, who became her husband. In her work she drew on abstraction, modernism, photography and Asian sources, producing a body of work both powerful and unique. The images she created – the red hi...

One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships—with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz.Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the often eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises that she painted with such command, are all the more remarkable when seen in the context of the struggle she waged between the rigorous demands of love and wo...

A cinematic Reconstruction-era drama of violence and fraught moral reckoningIn Dawson's Fall, a novel based on the lives of Roxana Robinson's great-grandparents, we see America at its most fragile, fraught, and malleable. Set in 1889, in Charleston, South Carolina, Robinson's tale weaves her family's journal entries and letters with a novelist's narrative grace, and spans the life of her tragic hero, Frank Dawson, as he attempts to navigate the country's ne...

A New York Times Notable Book: A luminous, deeply affecting story of divorce, remarriage, and parenthood.Peter and Emma, two single parents who have found love again after failed first marriages, dream of a peaceful and happy blended family with each of their daughters under one roof. They navigate this treacherous territory with the best of intentions, but face resistance from the girls, who, like many children of divorce, find their relationships tinged by grief,...

In Roxana Robinson’s 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 truth–not 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 ...