Pitch Dark
Author(s): Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
"Pitch Dark, Renata Adler's follow up to her prize winning book Speedboat, is a book of questions. It is also a book of false starts, red herrings, misunderstandings, and all-too-fleeting revelations. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in her affair with a married lover, and moments (conversations, things unsaid, misunderstandings) of that fraught relationship reverberate throughout the novel, following Kate from her house in rural Connecticut and her New York City brownstone apartment, to a small island off the coast of Washington, and to an utterly dark road in a remote corner of Ireland. Told in Adler’s celebrated fragmented style, and constructed from the bare bones language of everyday life, Pitch Darktranscends its parts to come to the kind of wisdom achievable only after a relentless quest. his new edition of Pitch Darkwill include an interview between Renata Adler and Guy Trebay discussing the genesis and composition of the book."
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RENATA ADLER was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d'E.S from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at The New Yorker in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of The New York Times, remained at The New Yorker for the next four decades. Her books include A Year in the Dark (1969); Toward a Radical Middle (1970); Reckless Disregard: Westmoreland v. CBS et al., Sharon v. Time (1986); Canaries in the Mineshaft (2001); Gone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999); Irreparable Harm: The U.S. Supreme Court and The Decision That Made George W. Bush President (2004); and the novels Speedboat (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and Pitch Dark (1983).
General Fields
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- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
- : 0.192
- : 01 February 2013
- : 196mm X 122mm
- : United States
- : 01 March 2013
- : books
Special Fields
- : Renata Adler; Guy Trebay (Contribution by); Muriel Spark (Afterword by)
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.54
- : 192
- : FA