Slow Emergencies: A NovelLin has a husband, two daughters, and close friends. But dance is her passion. Inescapably, it imposes itself upon her, until the inevitable moment when she must choose between her family life and the all-consuming world of dance to which she aches to return. Slow Emergencies conveys an irresistible impulse to create, and illustrates the emotional turmoil that ensues for Lin and her family. Nancy Huston, award-winning author of The Mark of the Angel, writes brilliantly here about the passage of time, the body’s vulnerability, and the solitude of creative endeavor. What results is a deeply felt novel that offers a disquieting but profoundly moving meditation on just what it means to be an artist. |
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... Manhattan department store , Marina wanders off and gets sucked up in the whirlwind of Christmas shoppers . Sweating in her fur coat , arms aching with the weight of bags , Lin drags Angela up and down aisles and escalators looking for ...
... Manhattan department store , Marina wanders off and gets sucked up in the whirlwind of Christmas shoppers . Sweating in her fur coat , arms aching with the weight of bags , Lin drags Angela up and down aisles and escalators looking for ...
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... in a cattle car in 1943 ! It works every time . Each Saturday morning Marina takes the train to Manhattan . When she arrives in the fearful huff of Grand Central , always Angela is there on time to meet Slow Emergencies 163.
... in a cattle car in 1943 ! It works every time . Each Saturday morning Marina takes the train to Manhattan . When she arrives in the fearful huff of Grand Central , always Angela is there on time to meet Slow Emergencies 163.
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A Novel Nancy Huston. They are in their underwear sitting on Angela's bed in Manhattan , and Marina is weaving her sister's hair into dozens of skinny blond braids . Suddenly Angela leaps from the bed , braids bobbing and exclaims , I ...
A Novel Nancy Huston. They are in their underwear sitting on Angela's bed in Manhattan , and Marina is weaving her sister's hair into dozens of skinny blond braids . Suddenly Angela leaps from the bed , braids bobbing and exclaims , I ...
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