author results for Robinson, Roxana

Leaving

Robinson, Roxana — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites--threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston. Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but can't predict how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.

Cost

Robinson, Roxana — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Georgia O'Keeffe

Robinson, Roxana — Wed, 31 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT

Georgia O'Keeffe

Robinson, Roxana — Tue, 31 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT

Georgia O'Keeffe

Robinson, Roxana — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Georgia O'Keeffe

Robinson, Roxana — Sun, 31 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

Asking for Love and Other Stories

Robinson, Roxana — Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT

Sparta

Robinson, Roxana — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT

"[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.

Sweetwater

Robinson, Roxana — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

A Perfect Stranger

Robinson, Roxana — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

This Is My Daughter

Robinson, Roxana — Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT

Summer Light

Robinson, Roxana — Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMT

Dawson's Fall

Robinson, Roxana — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT

"The story of Dawson, his wife, Sarah, and their family during the violent days following the Civil War. Dawson is the editor in chief of a newspaper in Charleston, SC, trying to bring a dose of humanity and justice to a tumultuous world struggling to right itself"-- Provided by publisher.

Leaving

Robinson, Roxana — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

"Wondrous.... This insightful, complex story about a late-in-life romance is unforgettable." —Joan Frank, The Washington Post

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again?

"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you anywhere."

Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites threatening the foundations of their lives. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside New York, while Warren is still married and living in Boston.

Seeing Warren sparks an awakening in Sarah, who feels emotionally alive for the first time in decades. Still, she hesitates to reclaim a chance at love after her painful divorce and years of framing her life around her children and her work. Warren has no such reservations: he wants to leave his marriage but fears how his wife and daughter will react. As their affair intensifies, Sarah and Warren must confront the moral responsibilities of their love for their families and each other.

An engrossing exploration of the vows we make to one another, the tensile relationships between parents and their children, and what we owe to others and ourselves, "Leaving is a tour de force—unfailingly clear-eyed, and its final impact shatters." (Washington Post)

Czternaście nocy

Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Co wieczór na dachu zaniedbanego budynku na nowojorskiej Lower East Side grupa sąsiadów zbiera się przy drinkach, by w świetle księżyca snuć niespieszne opowieści. Na zewnątrz szaleje pandemia, a lokatorzy kamienicy nie mogą czmychnąć do domów na wsi czy letnich rezydencji, jak od wieków w obliczu katastrofy czynią uprzywilejowani. Zamiast tego pozostaje im trzymać się razem, rozmawiać i spierać, ale przede wszystkim - dzielić się opowieściami. Tak jak w Dekameronie, Baśniach tysiąca i jednej nocy czy na kartach Rękopisu znalezionego w Saragossie z poplątanego wielogłosu wyłania się fascynująca opowieść i portret czasów, w których poczucie utraty i wspólnoty mogą iść w parze. Czternaście nocy to hołd oddany sztuce opowiadania. Na długo przed wynalezieniem pisma człowiek mierzył się z największymi wyzwaniami, snując historie. Opowieści pokazują nam, gdzie byliśmy i dokąd zmierzamy. Nadają sens bezsensownemu i przywracają porządek w chaosie. Każda z opowiedzianych tu historii wybrzmiewa zaś własnym głosem, bo w bohaterów Czternastu nocy wcieliły się jedne z najważniejszych obecnie postaci światowej literatury, od Margaret Atwood, przez Meg Wolitzer, Ishmaela Reeda, po Tess Gerritsen czy Johna Grishama.

A House by the Sea

Williams, Bunny — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Explores La Colina, Williams's Caribbean retreat tucked into lush, tropical gardens by the sea. The book explores every facet of the property--from outoor rooms and garden plantings and design to the island-living luxury of the interiors, furnishings, and collections.

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

Wharton, Edith — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT

Edith Wharton’s 20 classic short stories and novellas offer an exquisite portrait of Old New York, spanning from the Civil War through the Gilded Age (New York Times).
Edith Wharton wrote about New York as only a native can. Her Manhattan is a city of well-appointed drawing rooms, hansoms and broughams, all-night cotillions, and resplendent Fifth Avenue flats. Bishops’ nieces mingle with bachelor industrialists; respectable wives turn into excellent mistresses. All are governed by a code of behavior as rigid as it is precarious. What fascinates Wharton are the points of weakness in the structure of Old New York: the artists and writers at its fringes, the free-love advocates testing its limits, widows and divorcées struggling to hold their own.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton gathers twenty stories of the city, written over the course of Wharton’s career. From her first published story, “Mrs. Manstey’s View,” to one of her last and most celebrated, “Roman Fever,” this new collection charts the growth of an American master and enriches our understanding of the central themes of her work, among them the meaning of marriage, the struggle for artistic integrity, the bonds between parent and child, and the plight of the aged.
Illuminated by Roxana Robinson’s introduction, these stories showcase Wharton’s astonishing insight into the turbulent inner lives of the men and women caught up in a rapidly changing society.

The New York Stories of Edith Wharton

Wharton, Edith — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

A View of the Harbour

Taylor, Elizabeth — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT

""Are we to go on until we are old, with just these odd moments here and there and danger always so narrowly evaded? Love draining away our vitality, our hold on life, never adding anything to us." Blindness and betrayal are Elizabeth Taylor's great subjects, and in A View of the Harbour she turns her unsparing gaze on the emotional and sexual politics of a seedy seaside town that's been left behind by modernity. Tory, recently divorced, is having an affair with her neighbor Robert, a doctor, whose wife, Beth, is Tory's best friend. Beth notices nothing--an author of melodramatic novels, she is too busy with them to mind her house or its inhabitants--but her daughter Prudence knows what is up and is appalled. Gossip spreads in the little community, and Taylor's view widens to take in a range of characters from senile, snoopy Mrs. Bracey; to a young, widowed proprietor of the local waxworks, Lily Wilson; to the would-be artist Bertram. Taylor's novel is a beautifully observed and written examination of the fictions around which we construct our lives and manage our losses"-- Provided by publisher.

110 Stories

Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, some of New York's leading authors of fiction, poetry, and dramatic prose reflect on the event.

This Is Not Chick Lit

Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

The Road Ahead

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT

Loving

Green, Henry — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT

"Loving is set in the vast hereditary house of the Tennants, an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family, but the story mainly involves their servants. The war has led to a scarcity of experienced staff, and when Eldon the butler dies, Raunce the head doorman is assigned his job. The other servants are taken aback by this irregular promotion, but lovely young Edith, a recent hire, is quite attracted to the older Raunce and a flirtation begins. And it is Edith who discovers Mrs. Tennant's daughter, whose husband is fighting at the front, in bed with a neighbor one morning, scandalizing the whole household. When the Tennants depart for England, Raunce is left in charge of the house and struggles to control its disputatious inhabitants as well as to secure the love of Edith, especially after a precious family jewel disappears. In Loving, Henry Green explores the deeply precarious nature of ordinary life against the background of the larger world at war"-- Provided by publisher.

The Best Early Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald, F. Scott — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

The Kiss

Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT