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"A wonderful, illuminating piece of work," and "one of the best new novelists I've read in years" - notices like these greeted the publication of Rebecca Hill's first novel, Blue Rise, but even Hill;s earlier fans will be unprepared for the insight and intensity of Among Birches. Once more, "Hill probes the tenderest hurts and guilts, the rage and childhood ties which still lacerate and bind." And once more, her characters' "deeper rebellion is against the onward weep of time itself, since there's nothing like a long marriage for reminding us that the essence of life is running on and running down." But into the tensions of marriage she now introduces the theme of adultery, and into the loyalties of friendship - most particularly friendship among women - she raises the specter of betrayal. Among Birches opens with a party celebrating Aspera Hancock's fortieth birthday. Forty is a precarious time for Aspera, her husband, Will, and their friends in Bracken, Minnesota. These are small
town people who have achieved not only a livelihood but strategies to get them through life and whose attention now turns to what is left. They are, in the author's words, "a decade into their post-romantic period," trying "to hold to the channels that would route them between chaos on one side and ossification on the other." No longer young, not yet old, as the ground shifts beneath their feet they discover their three great fears to be "death, divorce and younger lovers." These three elements are all too present at this birthday celebration. Aspera and Will are at odds, and their old friends Dalton and Bunny offer a strained picture of marital bliss. Their friend Vicky is widowed, their friend Dena divorced, Vicky has brought her lover, twenty-six-year-old Kevin Stowe, a young man Aspera and Will have referred to derisively as "Baby Kevin". But Kevin is to prove dangerous beyond his years. Into the ties that bind this group, he introduces loops and slipknots, and soon Aspera finds
she must bring new order - beginning a very long way back - to any relationship she means to keep. - Dust jacket.… (altro)
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Aspera, at 40, is dissatisfied with her husband and her life. Their communication is not good, both acting off assumptions and not willing to be clear about what they really think or want. Three other friends with whom she meets are also dissatisfied. Aspera takes a lover. Do any of these women do anything other than sit around and complain about their lives? Some interesting phrases in the first couple dozen pages, & the final sentence mentions an interesting custom. ( )
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I will tell you about Anna Karenina, and the predominance of sexual love in 19th Century fiction, and its growing unreality to us who have no real condemnation in our hearts any longer for adultery as such. But Tolstoy hoists all his books on that support. Take it away, say, no, it doesn't offend me that AK should copulate with Vronsky, and what remains?...Put yourself that question on the Steppes with the owls hooting and a melancholy wolf slinking behind the everlasting birch trees." --Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 13 April 1926
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarily--perhaps not possibly--chronological.--Eudora Welty "Learning to See"
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for Jude
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Finally after dinner they sat around the fire in the living room with the last of the wineglasses balanced on knees and end tables.
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In one of Elvira's books, Aspera has come across a mention of a custom the ancient druids had for honoring the new year--birch twigs gathered and offered to the chosen lover, the giving itself an invitation: you may begin.
"A wonderful, illuminating piece of work," and "one of the best new novelists I've read in years" - notices like these greeted the publication of Rebecca Hill's first novel, Blue Rise, but even Hill;s earlier fans will be unprepared for the insight and intensity of Among Birches. Once more, "Hill probes the tenderest hurts and guilts, the rage and childhood ties which still lacerate and bind." And once more, her characters' "deeper rebellion is against the onward weep of time itself, since there's nothing like a long marriage for reminding us that the essence of life is running on and running down." But into the tensions of marriage she now introduces the theme of adultery, and into the loyalties of friendship - most particularly friendship among women - she raises the specter of betrayal. Among Birches opens with a party celebrating Aspera Hancock's fortieth birthday. Forty is a precarious time for Aspera, her husband, Will, and their friends in Bracken, Minnesota. These are small
town people who have achieved not only a livelihood but strategies to get them through life and whose attention now turns to what is left. They are, in the author's words, "a decade into their post-romantic period," trying "to hold to the channels that would route them between chaos on one side and ossification on the other." No longer young, not yet old, as the ground shifts beneath their feet they discover their three great fears to be "death, divorce and younger lovers." These three elements are all too present at this birthday celebration. Aspera and Will are at odds, and their old friends Dalton and Bunny offer a strained picture of marital bliss. Their friend Vicky is widowed, their friend Dena divorced, Vicky has brought her lover, twenty-six-year-old Kevin Stowe, a young man Aspera and Will have referred to derisively as "Baby Kevin". But Kevin is to prove dangerous beyond his years. Into the ties that bind this group, he introduces loops and slipknots, and soon Aspera finds
she must bring new order - beginning a very long way back - to any relationship she means to keep. - Dust jacket.
Some interesting phrases in the first couple dozen pages, & the final sentence mentions an interesting custom. ( )