Life Drawing: A Novel
by Robin Black
Buy on Amazon"Augusta and Owen are living a quiet country life of companionship and artistic creation--she a painter, he a writer--until Alison, a beautiful British woman, moves in to the previously unoccupied cottage next door. As Gus and Owen's life becomes intertwined with Alison's, past betrayals, losses, and new desires come to a head. A remarkably insightful, gorgeously written, unforgettable portrait of a marriage, of mature love, of desire, of regret, and forgiveness, this is a "a magnificent literary achievement" (Karen Russell) by a writer working at the top of her form" --
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"This isn’t a love story; it’s the story of a marriage that’s no longer easy. Five years ago, Gus (short for Augusta) had an affair. Her husband, Owen, knows about it and hasn’t moved on. The couple moves to a farmhouse in the country hoping to escape their past, but once there Gus finds she can’t avoid her betrayal and Owen can’t shake his resentment. “It wasn’t our solitude that had shut down so much of our history,” Gus says. “It was our history that had produced our solitude.” Eventually, a new neighbor moves in next door, disrupting that solitude and transforming Life Drawing from an honest portrait of a marriage into a thriller."
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