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.
- ISBN10 0876857756
- ISBN13 9780876857755
- Publish Date 5 August 2010
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 10 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 224
- Language English