A Richer Dust

A Richer Dust
Amy Boaz,
Publisher: The Permanent Press
ISBN: 1579621597 DDC: 813.6 Edition: Hardcover; 2008-03-01

Summary:

When Doll, a British painter just out of art school at Slade, arrives
in New Mexico in 1924, she is certain only of her faith in the man
who invited her: social philosopher Abe Bronstone, who has left
Britain to found a model society in Taos. Doll has renounced her own
aristocratic roots to join the high desert household of Abe and his
wife Vera (a scandalous German divorcÃƒÂ©e). Doll's narration of
events moves backward to her childhood in Victorian London, and
forward to her solitary life in 1963 Taos, solitary until she meets
the much younger Akbar ("He doesn't know how much younger and I don't
plan to tell him"). As the community around Abe which loosely
incorporates East Coast heiress Janie; her Native American husband,
Junior; local Indians from the reservation; and a war-traumatized
Chicago poet and his wife unravels, Doll's affair with Akbar, the
most fulfilling of her life, intensifies, but it puts her in
small-town conflict with Akbar's mother, protective of her sweetly
ne'er-do-well son.Inspired by events in the life of the British
painter Dorothy Brett, who ventured to Taos with D.H. Lawrence and
his wife in the years after World War I (and, unlike the Lawrences,
stayed to brave it out), A Richer Dust finds in Doll's life the
convulsive shift from the Victorian to the Modern, as aesthetics and
sexuality found explosive new forms. It is the story of a woman who
remains open to life despite discouragement and disappointments, and
whose self-discovery of her art, her body, and her mind is as
unceasing as it is unaffected. The Taos landscape, through Doll's
eyes (and through the rest of her keen senses, except for her damaged
hearing), is vivid and breathtaking, and serves as a magnificent
canvas for sketching the arc of her life.

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Dewey Class: 813.6 -- Fiction

Book Details:

Physical Description: 5.7"x8.5"x0.9"; 0.8 lb; 184 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2008-03-01

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