Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor by Robin Lippincott

Description

Bibliographic Details

• Author: Robin Lippincott
• Title: Our Arcadia: An American Watercolor
• Publisher: ‎ Viking; First Edition (June 4, 2001)
• Language: ‎ English
• Forma: Hardcover w/Deckle Edge – 320 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 0670892734
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0670892730
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.05 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.3 x 1.2 x 7.75 inches
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition

Synopsis:

Inspired by their desire to explore the question, "How to Live?" Nora Hartley and Lark Marin buy a house in Truro, on Cape Cod, to create a haven for themselves and their like-minded friends in their quest for a meaningful life.

Nora, thirty-three, is a well-educated divorcée with two young children; Lark, twenty-four, is a disaffected gay man.

The story spans from 1928 to 1943 as it follows the colorful cast of characters who make their way into the bohemian True House. Inevitably, the friends' haven is not impermeable, and they are unable to keep harsh, sometimes violent, reality at bay.

Presented in short, deft, impressionistic chapters, Our Arcadia is an elegant, thoughtful novel about the intersection of life and art and the importance of friendships from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Dalloway.

"A captivating novel, peopled with appealing characters and an intriguing experimenting with an alternative lifestyle." (Orlando Sentinel)

About the Author:

Robin Lippincott is the author of six books, most recently BLUE TERRITORY: A MEDITATION ON THE LIFE AND ART OF JOAN MITCHELL, and RUFUS + SYD, a novel for young adults co-written with Julia Watts. BLUE TERRITORY is also available as an audio book, read by Tandy Cronyn.

Born and raised in the South, Robin is also the author of the novels IN THE MEANTIME, OUR ARCADIA, and MR. DALLOWAY, as well as the short story collection, THE 'I' REJECTED.

His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in over thirty journals, including "The Paris Review," "Fence," "American Short Fiction," "The New York Times Book Review," and many others, as well as in the anthologies UNBROKEN CIRCLE: STORIES OF CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE SOUTH, M2M: NEW LITERARY FICTION, REBEL YELL and REBEL YELL 2.

Robin's fiction has been nominated for the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award, the Independent Book Award, the Pushcart Prize, the American Library Association Roundtable Award, and the Lambda Literary Award.

He is a multiple Yaddo fellow as well as a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. He teaches in the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing Program at Spalding University.