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In a dense narrative studded with vivid imagery, Easter O'Brian looks back on her life from the vantage point of late middle age and some renown as a painter. Born in Alabama to a sexually abusive, alcoholic father and a frightened, passive mother, Easter escapes her ugly existence through art. An unwed teenage mother, she manages to marry a college boy, vowing to suppress her creative urges and to become the perfect suburban housewife. Creativity soon bursts out and transforms her once again, this time into a freethinking hippie artist in New Orleans. Her preoccupation with sex and her controversial paintings, however, reveal a tormented mind; her son's mental illness and her daughter's heroin addiction constantly remind Easter of her "failure" as a mother and the price she has paid for her art. In her first novel, the author of the nonfiction Sleeping with Soldiers and Fatal Flowers spins a tale of passionate feeling and profound struggle. Here, as in her other works, Daniell's prose is sometimes as lamentably excessive as the emotions and incidents she explores, but her fierce engagement with her characters makes this novel a powerful reading experience.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
This novel tells the story of Easter O'Brian, a Southern woman, an artist, and a mother. It follows her from her abusive childhood in Alabama, through her marriages, the birth of her children, and her growth as an artist. Daniell's imagery is just as vivid as Easter's paintings: "At nine, I walked barefoot down the red-dirt roads outside Mobile. . . . I savored the striations, variations in the soil, from pale salmon to deep sienna to charcoal, and I loved the way, after a hard rain, the auburn dust turned a slick, vivid red." Easter is the embodiment of many women today--trying to reconcile her work with her children and her sexuality. Daniell has fictionalized the same themes presented in her earlier works, Fatal Flowers: On Sin, Sex, and Suicide in the Deep South ( LJ 4/15/80) and Sleeping with Soldiers: In Search of the Macho Man ( LJ 12/84). Recommended for most collections.-- Kathy Ingels Helmond, Indiana Univ.
Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Lib.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis Lib.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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A fictional adventure of life!,
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Kept me reading page after page. One of my favorite Daniell books. It felt so real and present. A well written story, of the southern women artist that wants to live and love.
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This is a gutwrenching book about creativity, addiction, insanity and gender in the Deep South. A truly readable book challenging assumptions about conventional morality and what it means to be an artist, a woman and a mother wherever you are.
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