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Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics) by Renata Adler [Adler, Renata] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics) about?
“What’s new. What else. What next. What’s happened here.”Pitch Dark is a book about love. Kate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland.Composed in the style of Renata Adler’s celebrated novel Speedboat and displaying her keen journalist’s eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime, Pitch Dark is a bold and astonishing work of art.From BookforumPitch Dark is murky—not in a turgid sense, but clouded, rather, by troubled reflections, ambivalence, regrets. The weather of Pitch Dark is chilly. Secondary figures are fraught with shadowed histories. Incidents and asides illustrate a hapless, estranging condition of things. —Gary Indiana Review“Intense. . . brilliant. . . A mood, dark and sinister, grows steadily and a tight kind of suspense is created. . . For those who would like to know where fiction is headed, it’s somewhere in this aggressive, provocative direction.”—*People*“Two things hold Pitch Dark together and give it speed a
Who reads Pitch Dark (NYRB Classics)?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Renata Adler [Adler, Renata]
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781590176146
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Literary Fiction
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