Author : Ann Lewinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991314171
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (141 download)
Book Synopsis Still Life with Meredith by : Ann Lewinson
Download or read book Still Life with Meredith written by Ann Lewinson and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An animal wrangler in a contemporary art museum ransacks her past as she awaits the return of her roommate Meredith, an emerging artist of growing notoriety, while discoursing on Dutch still life painting, the mating habits of her species and others, and the extreme measures taken by the French psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte to achieve sexual fulfillment. But as time passes and Meredith has yet to return, this unnamed narrator's needle-sharp stories begin to vibrate with an increasing sense of isolation, unfurling into an examination of the obligations-inherent, acquired and imposed-of being a woman.This audacious, burning match of a novella marks the debut of Ann Lewinson, a fearless writer of uncommon insight, boundless curiosity and mordant wit, whose jaundiced eye takes on the comic excesses of contemporary art and the multifariousness of bad sex in equal measure. With incisive intelligence and profound compassion, Still Life with Meredith contemplates the thin line separating sanity from madness, as we inevitably wait for the strangers we love and the loved ones we estrange.