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Fugitive Blue

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Joanna Hirsch is an aspiring off-Broadway actress whose complex life has finally shattered. Having tried to normalize relations with her mother, Georgia, a world-renowned sculptress who left her family nearly twenty years before to pursue her art, Joanna unexpectedly learns that Georgia has flown again - this time from her SoHo loft in New York to the Umbrian mountains of Italy. Joanna's lover of the last ten years, theater director Nigel Easden, has also gone, leaving a goodbye note on top of a pile of newspapers that contain scathing reviews of his most recent production. And Joanna's oldest and most complicated relationship, with her childhood friend Billy Overmeyer, has ended in random urban tragedy. Suddenly, Joanna is all alone. Fugitive Blue is a richly told story about a daughter's love for her brilliant and difficult mother. Lyrical and unflinching, this new novel by an author whose "language sings of Fitzgerald" takes Joanna Hirsch on a journey from her lonely suburban childhood to a life as forcibly created as one of her mother's sculptures: chiseled from the ashes, the wreckage of her past.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Smithmark Pub

Release: September 01, 1997

ISBN: 0831791063

ISBN 13: 9780831791063

Fugitive Blue

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Joanna Hirsch is an aspiring off-Broadway actress whose complex life has finally shattered. Having tried to normalize relations with her mother, Georgia, a world-renowned sculptress who left her family nearly twenty years before to pursue her art, Joanna unexpectedly learns that Georgia has flown again - this time from her SoHo loft in New York to the Umbrian mountains of Italy. Joanna's lover of the last ten years, theater director Nigel Easden, has also gone, leaving a goodbye note on top of a pile of newspapers that contain scathing reviews of his most recent production. And Joanna's oldest and most complicated relationship, with her childhood friend Billy Overmeyer, has ended in random urban tragedy. Suddenly, Joanna is all alone. Fugitive Blue is a richly told story about a daughter's love for her brilliant and difficult mother. Lyrical and unflinching, this new novel by an author whose "language sings of Fitzgerald" takes Joanna Hirsch on a journey from her lonely suburban childhood to a life as forcibly created as one of her mother's sculptures: chiseled from the ashes, the wreckage of her past.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Smithmark Pub

Release: September 01, 1997

ISBN: 0831791063

ISBN 13: 9780831791063

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