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The author of The Mark of the Angel explores the tension between love and life, family and individuality, and art and the ordinary in a new novel about a woman's painful choice between a dance career and her family. $25,000 first printing.
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"Spare, elegant .... I can think of no other novel that so honestly and deeply explores the experience of the artist." -- Jeffrey Lent, author of In the Fall "A sensitive, sweeping account of the difficulty of reconciling maternal and artistic callings"-Publishers Weekly "A haunting story about an uncommon subject"-Library Journal "One wakes from this novel as from a spell of urgent, slow-motion dreams. . . . Slow Emergencies is full of the elements of enchantment." -- The Washington Post
"Told simply and without pretense. . . . Huston deserves bravos for her portrayal of how motherhood devours the mother."- Book
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"Told simply and without pretense. . . . Huston deserves bravos for her portrayal of how motherhood devours the mother."- Book
A native of Calgary and of New Hampshire, Nancy Huston now lives in Paris; she writes in both French and English. The author of nine novels and numerous works of nonfiction, she has won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéen, the Prix du Livre-Inter, the Prix Elle, and the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French.
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- PublisherSteerforth Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1883642639
- ISBN 13 9781883642631
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages198
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