Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby . Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia ...
Read More
Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby . Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia is swept away on the wings of money and charm to a world of compulsive sensuality--a world that comes to a sudden, sobering end when she finds that she is pregnant. Laura Chester precisely charts the evolution of a doomed relationship, from first erotic rush to shattering disillusionment. Along the way, she explores the ways that women support one another in difficult times.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good. Pages 59/60 have some creasing due to manufacturing defect. Text is still readable. Otherwise near new with some fading to spine along cover. Unread copy from new/old stock.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. Book in vg condition, pages clean. Tight binding. No writing/underlining or highlighting. Very Clean Copy-Over 500, 000 Internet Orders Filled.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Black Sparrow Press, 1989. Good., Paperback, Octavo, 224. Text clean, bright. 224 pages. Light discoloration to rear cover. Packed and shipped with care.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Near Fine in near fine jacket. Letter P of 26 signed copy, handbound by Earle Gray. Cloth over boards in acetate dust jacket, just about fine copy. 224 pp.
