Summer light
By: Roxana Robinson.
Edition: University Press of New England paperback ed.
Series: Hardscrabble books
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: New England -- Fiction.
Description: Roxana Robinson's great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In this new paperback edition of her first novel, we meet Laura, a 29-year-old wife, mother, sister, friend, lover, and erstwhile photographer whose life is painfully out of focus.

A month's vacation on the Maine coast with her son, her lover, Ward, and her sister's family is supposed to be an idyllic period of sustenance and calm, but for Laura, who believes that "entropy governed the world, the universe, and the dinner hour," it turns into the ultimate test of her ability to trust herself and others.
Notes: Originally published: London : J. M. Dent & Sons, 1987. In a different form.