Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby . Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia ...
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Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby . Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia is swept away on the wings of money and charm to a world of compulsive sensuality--a world that comes to a sudden, sobering end when she finds that she is pregnant. Laura Chester precisely charts the evolution of a doomed relationship, from first erotic rush to shattering disillusionment. Along the way, she explores the ways that women support one another in difficult times.
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Near Fine in near fine jacket. Letter P of 26 signed copy, handbound by Earle Gray. Cloth over boards in acetate dust jacket, just about fine copy. 224 pp.
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Edition:
Signed First Edition Numbered and Limited to 250 Copies
Publisher:
Black Sparrow Press
Published:
1989
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18784746399
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Near Fine in Very Good+ jacket. A Near Fine Book in a Very Good or Better Publisher's Acetate Covering. Signed by Author to Limitation Page and Numbered "27" of 250 Copies. Book is moderately shelf worn to extremities. Boards are lightly soiled and sunned. Text block is bright and fresh. Text is unmarked. Binding is tight and square. Publisher's acetate covering is scuffed in places and is bumped to corners, crown, and tail. Hardcover. Octavo. [10], 11-224pp. + Limitation Page and Author Photo..
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