On a spring day in Vermont,seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life toKathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back to heryouth, to the heady postwar days of American art and her relationships with theartists who defined their times. As the day wears on, Kathryn and Hope - interviewer and interviewee- try to understand one another across the gulf ofage, experience and time that lies between them. And subtly, as each comes toknow the other, their relationship changes…
"[A] superb and moving novel...A neatly focused, reasonably inclusive, grand tour of post-World War II art."
--The Baltimore Sun--
"Thrilling...Fascinating...It is wonderful to read a book that gives itself over so unabashedly to art."
--The Washington Post Book World--
"[A] BRIEF NOVEL OF DEEP FEELING...LOVELY AND WISE...What you recall is that reading Updike has always provided the pleasures you hoped were in store when you went to the trouble of learning to read."
--Time--
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