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Hardcover: 242 pages |
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“Two things ruined me: a poem and an error.” Why was Ovid, the most popular author of his day, banished to the edge of the Roman Empire? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate work and perhaps his most accomplished? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, The Love-Artist interpolates a haunting drama of passion and psychological manipulation. ...read an excerpt “A wonderfully seductive first novel . . . that shimmers with the musical artifice of Ovid’s poetry while evoking the darker tragedies of his life . . . Alison has found a voice, at once modern and archaic, lyrical and potent, that mesmerizes the reader . . . . A small, twinkling jewel of a novel.”--Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “The kind of work that deserves a large and enthusiastic following . . . . exquisitely direct and moving.”--Baltimore Sun “A remarkable debut: both historical novel and exotic love story, The Love-Artist has the complexity, color, and nearly ecstatic liveliness of a mosaic newly restored, revealing the past as undeniably contemporary.”--Providence Sunday Journal ...read a review |
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Hardcover: 272 pages |
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2003 A tragical comedy set in New Orleans and Venice, about four men, three women, food, architecture, love, despair . . . and water. With wit, sympathy, and surpassing deftness, The Marriage of the Sea draws an intricate quadrille among seven characters drawn by love and loneliness, aspiration and desperation, to these famously romantic, venal, and elusive cities of water. “Ambitious, complex, challengingly intellectual . . . a creation of real beauty. . . . A real achievement.”--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Positively Shakespearean . . . a book of troubling marvels.”--Memphis Commercial Appeal “The Marriage of the Sea . . . flows with stylistic brilliance.”--Baltimore Sun |
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Hardcover: 256 pages |
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A National Public Radio summer selection hear an excerpt: npr.natives.and.exotics It’s a difficult thing to crave, land, especially when your body is small. And a dangerous thing, too, when you have no business being there, when it’s not even where you’re from.
Alice, an unrooted child of diplomats in South America Three generations wander a world scarred by colonialism and disturbing scientific revelations, from the unearthing of the first dinosaur bones to the discovery that the continents drift, in a hypnotic novel about our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home. “Rapturous.”--Vanity Fair “A tender, lyrical novel . . . . a lush evocation of the way people love and alter (and are altered by) the environments they inhabit.”--Publishers Weekly “Alison stakes a powerful claim to the best socially conscious literature.”--Charlotte Observer |
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