From Publishers Weekly
The lives of two talented women are traced in this spirited novel by a writer of paperback romances. In New York's counterculture of the '60s, Vera, an aspiring photographer, and Annie, a talented painter, become fast friends, despite starkly dissimilar origins--Vera is a Hoosier of Methodist leanings,and Annie, a child of Jewish refugees, familiar with affluence. With marriage and careers, however, they drift apart, finding existences very different from their youthful idealism. In their 40s, both women experience life crises: Annie, who has sublimated her art to bolster the career of her artist-husband, is stricken with cancer; Vera, successful editor of a glossy fashion magazine, is dealing with a troubling marriage and children. Circumstances unite the two on Block Island, where catharsis and a kind of healing occur. Female bonding is the theme, accoutered with fashionable settings, throwaway chic and men both sexually compliant and threatening, in this diverting, not especially original, women's story.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Ve and Annie were good friends and carefree artists as young women, but as the years went by they grew apart, each subjugating her artistic talent to other goals. Annie's was to further the failing career of her painter husband; Ve's, to become a superwoman--great Mom, beautiful devoted wife, and lady executive. Twenty years go by before their separate worlds are nearly shattered by Annie's consuming cancer, which she neglects to treat in traditional ways, and by the aftermath of Ve's sudden erotic fling with a charming but dangerous stranger in retaliation for her husband's brief affair and her daughter's frustration at having so perfect a mother. Block Island is the setting for the dramatic renewal of a fond friendship gone astray and the rebirth of lost hopes. For public libraries. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 6/15/89.
- Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
