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.
- ISBN10 1883642639
- ISBN13 9781883642631
- Publish Date 21 January 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Steerforth Press
- Edition American ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English