Summer Light - Hardcover

Robinson, Roxana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670822485 ISBN 13: 9780670822485

Publisher: Viking, 1988

Synopsis

Laura, hovering between a soured marriage and a chaotic, unharmonious existence with her son, her lover, and a host of family members, is living at loose ends until a crisis throws her perilously off-balance and ultimately helps her to regain her bearings

About this title

From the Publisher:

5 3/8 x 8 1/2 trim. LC 95-32560

From the Back Cover:

Roxana Robinson's great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In this new paperback edition of her first novel, we meet Laura, a 29-year-old wife, mother, sister, friend, lover, and erstwhile photographer whose life is painfully out of focus. A month's vacation on the Maine coast with her son, her lover, Ward, and her sister's family is supposed to be an idyllic period of sustenance and calm, but for Laura, who believes that "entropy governed the world, the universe, and the dinner hour", it turns into the ultimate test of her ability to trust herself and others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0670822485
• ISBN 13: 9780670822485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200