Naked sleeper

And it must have depleted her, because her second is woefully under-thought and under-written. His fulsome letters, once she returns home to her husband, Roy, prompt her to fly off to Tucson to try out Lyle for a few days. And the full revelation is a point of interest in the book, as a spectacular car crash might be in the middle of a long, dull trip. Her closed eyes filled with tears, and when he felt the trembling of her mouth he pressed her harder, made the trembling stop.

View Larger Image. Synopsis: The prize-winning author of A Feather on the Breath of God traces a romantic triangle involving a woman searching for her runaway father, her husband, and a married professor she meets in the country. The protagonist is a year-old New Yorker named Nona who thinks too much of and about herself. She ruins a perfectly decent marriage for a lousy affair and then wonders where she went wrong. She has other concerns, both past and present, that create pictures of one woman and--through her eyes--of those around her.

The promise Nunez revealed in her acclaimed debut, A Feather on the Breath of God , is here fulfilled and magnified, as she follows the struggles of a woman to know her father and understand herself, labors that imperil her once secure marriage. Nona, little loved as a child and a pill-dependent insomniac as an adult, has found a measure of happiness hitherto unknown in her five-year marriage to Roy, with whom she shares a love of music and New York City life. Trouble erupts, however, during a monthlong visit to a friend's country estate, to which she retreats to work on a book about her father—an artist long dead, but out of her life even before that—when she meets brooding, handsome English prof Lyle and inexplicably finds herself opening up to him. He swamps her with love letters when they return to their respective homes, until she decides to visit him for a weekend in Tucson.

The promise Nunez revealed in her acclaimed debut, A Feather on the Breath of God, is here fulfilled and magnified, as she follows the struggles of a woman to know her father and understand I am going to have to find out where I got my latest recommendations and stop taking that magazine's advice for what to read! Again, I have to say this book was spell-bindingly good, but all the way Naked Sleeper : A Novel. Sigrid Nunez.