Slow Emergencies

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Lin has a husband, two daughters, close friends and moments of rare happiness. Inexorably, however, the dance - which is both her passion and her profession, imposes itself on her and finally the day comes when she has to choose.
SLOW EMERGENCIES describes an irresistible impulse, a powerful energy which, from childbirth to abandonment and departure, is nevertheless always a movement towards life.
Huston writes beautifully here about the dance, the unfathomable workings of time, the joys and terrors of motherhood, the unspeakable solitude of art, the beauty and vulnerability of the human body, the power of natural cycles, and the enigmatic imprint of family destiny
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NANCY HUSTON was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953 and moved to New Hampshire when she was fifteen. As a student at Sarah Lawrence College, she went to Paris in 1973 for a year of study abroad and never moved back. She is the author of seven novels and numerous works of non-fiction that have been published in her... Tovább

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Lin has a husband, two daughters, close friends and moments of rare happiness. Inexorably, however, the dance - which is both her passion and her profession, imposes itself on her and finally the day comes when she has to choose.
SLOW EMERGENCIES describes an irresistible impulse, a powerful energy which, from childbirth to abandonment and departure, is nevertheless always a movement towards life.
Huston writes beautifully here about the dance, the unfathomable workings of time, the joys and terrors of motherhood, the unspeakable solitude of art, the beauty and vulnerability of the human body, the power of natural cycles, and the enigmatic imprint of family destiny
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NANCY HUSTON was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1953 and moved to New Hampshire when she was fifteen. As a student at Sarah Lawrence College, she went to Paris in 1973 for a year of study abroad and never moved back. She is the author of seven novels and numerous works of non-fiction that have been published in her native Canada and her adopted France, and she writes in both French and English. Her previous books have won the Prix Goncourt des Lycéen, the Prix du Livre-Inter, the Prix Elle (Quebec) and the Governor General's Award for Fiction in French. She lives in Paris with her husband, Tzvetan Todorov, a philosopher and writer originally from Bulgaria, and their two children.
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