The Rowing Lesson

✍ Scribed by Landsman, Anne

• Book ID: 107575750
• Publisher: Soho Press
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781569474693

✦ Synopsis

Winner of the South African M-Net Literary Prize (English category).

''Anne Landsman's glittering, shimmering new novel is a tour de force. . . . Elation and pain, anxiety and exuberance, and the uneven beat of living are all caught in language as silky and fluid as music.''--Roxana Robinson

''Like Joyce or William Gass or John Edgar Wideman, Anne Landsman fashions a sensual web of memory and desire, rescuing a world at the brink of extinction through the power of her lyricism.''--Stewart O'Nan

''An elegy for a lost father and a beloved world on the point of disappearing. Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fire and passion.''--J. M. Coetzee

''A fierce elegy, a daughter's imaginary inhabitation of the memory of her dying father . . . an adventure in language. . . . It makes art of a life.''--Louis Menand

Betsy Klein is summoned from her home in the United States to her father's hospital bed in South Africa....