Slow Emergencies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375709203)

Lin 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.

Author: Nancy Huston
ISBN-10: 0375709207
ISBN-13: 9780375709203
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2002
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.10w x 0.64d