A Kind of Dream

✍ Scribed by Cherry, Kelly

• Book ID: 110307429
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 113 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780299297602

✦ Synopsis

Life is A Kind of Dream. So is the art we make in response to life. In A Kind of Dream , five generations of an artistic family explore the ups and downs of life, discovering that for an artist even failure is success, because the work matters more than the self.

The selves in this book include Nina, a writer, and her husband, Palmer, a historian, who, having settled into marriage and family life, are now faced with the bittersweetness of late life; BB and Roy, who make a movie in Mongolia; Tavy, Nina's adopted daughter, a painter in her twenties who meets her birth mother for the first time; and Tavy's young daughter, Callie, a budding violinist. Other vivid characters confront the awful fact of violence in America; try to cope with political ineptitude; and one devises his own code of sexual morality. Perhaps the most important character is Nina's dog, a salt-and-pepper cairn terrier of uncommon wisdom.

Fame, death, rash...