Roxana Robinson

This Is My Daughter is the intense, closely examined story of the second marriage of divorced parents. Both Peter and Emma have young daughters and both are profoundly committed to the task of forming a new family - one better than those they left, one bonded by love and trust. Their daughters, however, are not partners in this venture, but helpless and unhappy participants. Instead of commitment to the new family, the girls, like all children of divorce, feel sorrow, loss, and a longing for their earlier lives. While children can't prevent a divorce, they can prevent the success of a marriage. The novel charts the course of this newly formed family that starts with such good intentions, but that struggles increasingly under the weight of such opposing desires. The tensions and complexities grow steadily more powerful as the years pass, and the story moves inexorably to a stunning and emotional climax.

With the publication of only two works of fiction, a first novel called Summer Light and a story collection, A Glimpse of Scarlet, Roxana Robinson has established a reputation as a chronicler of the carefully hidden realities behind the serene surface of old-guard WASP family life. She has been called "John Cheever's heir apparent" by The New York Times Book Review and compared with Henry James and Edith Wharton by Time. She writes about the same sorts of people - the old-moneyed families of Manhattan, Connecticut, Long Island, and Maine, the inhabitants of summer homes and town houses, boarding schools and private clubs - but Robinson's characters are as contemporary as today's teenagers, a group she depicts with particularly unnerving accuracy. Her style is concise and unsparingly honest, but tempered by sympathy and a basic understanding of human nature that is at times profound. . In this second collection of her short fiction, the author returns to the world she knows so well and shows us men and women whose lives are in various stages of disarray, or repair. Divorce and remarriage have altered their landscapes, and they struggle to achieve order with a new set of rules. Stories like "The Nightmare" and "Family Restaurant" explore the minefields of stepparenting and portray the confused struggles - sometimes silent, sometimes not - of the ultimate victims of divorce, the children. Marriage itself, and especially its tendency to change, is explored in stories like "Slipping Away" and "Do Not Stand Here. And stories like "White Boys in Their Teens" and "Leaving Home" examine the experiences of those who step outside this privileged, comfortable world, often to gain a new perspective on their lives.

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"Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in the arts community and the American public. Despite the great gained recognition in America and Europe, only a few of his works have been exhibited to the European public. Artist and woman, Georgia O 'Keeffe (1887-1986) embodies the American myth of independence, individualism and greatness. His works are unique, as the combination of colors: the study of forms, the choice of tone and color, the curvy and sensual portion of the brush are repeated in games and new combinations, but never quite different. Founded in 1887 by a family of farmers and She went to art since childhood, Georgia O'Keeffe began his studies in Chicago then continued to New York. After working as a graphic design and teacher, from 1918 he devoted himself entirely to painting, with the support of the photographer and gallery owner Alfred Stieglitz, whom she married in 1924 and with whom he lived at 30 th floor of the Shelton Hotel in New York. These were the years when he began to paint the Big City. After many trips to the United States, following the death of her husband in 1946, he settled in New Mexico that had inspired so much. At the age of 66 years began to travel the world and devoted himself to experiments with clay. He died in 1986."--Transliterated from publisher's website.

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.

As stated in a will, well-bred, cosmopolitan Virginia Hepperly will earn the rights to a Wyoming Territory ranch if she spends five years teaching Native American children in the territory. Discovering that her two little stepsisters are being mistreated by their guardians, Virginia takes them with her to begin a new life. But after arriving, she finds that there are those who want to destroy her--and her future. Features a 16-page insert with 30 frontier recipes and home remedies used by characters in the author's books.

"[After four years in Iraq, Conrad Farrell returns to Katonah, New York], and he's beginning to learn that something has changed in his landscape. Something has gone wrong, though things should be fine: he hasn't been shot or wounded; he's never had psychological troubles. But as he attempts to reconnect with his family and his girlfriend and to find his footing in the civilian world, he learns how hard it is to return to the people and places he used to love"--Dust jacket flap.

Mrs. Manstey's view -- That good may come -- The portrait -- A cup of cold water -- A journey -- The Rembrandt -- The other two -- The quicksand -- The dilettante -- The reckoning -- Expiation -- The pot-boiler -- His father's son -- Full circle -- Autres temps -- The long run -- After Holbein -- Diagnosis -- Pomegranate see -- Roman fever.