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In 1928, two friends--Nora Hartley, a well-educated divorcTe with two young children, and Lark Martin, a young homosexual man--decide to create a haven for themselves and like-minded friends and purchase a house in Truro on Cape Cod, in an evocative story of friendship, the link between life and art, and the redemptive power of imagination. 12,500 first printing.
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Robin Lippincott is the author of The Real, True Angel, a collection of stories, and Mr. Dalloway, a novel. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The American Voice, The Literary Review, and many other magazines.
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Our Arcadia, Chapter One
I Arcady
WRY
I have desired to go
Where springs not fail
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.
Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Heaven-Haven" How to Live? WRY
Lark hovers in the little rowboat: it is just past dawn and the lake is still cast in fog. Obscured and surrounded by what might as well be masses of gas, he could be anywhere-on the moon, even. The thought makes him shiver; he tucks his hands into the sleeves of his red jacket and then tosses out the question he has been pondering, imagines it as a solid object that hits the water's surface, causing first ripples, then concentric circles to form and float. That is where I live, he thinks, within those circles; with my friends. But the thing that formed the circle, the question itself? It is the question, the question of the day and, as Nora would remind him, of the great Russian novel: How to live? He still does not know. But does anyone? It has long seemed to him that Nora knows, but he guesses, too, that the answer is not really something one person can impart to or share with another; it is ineffable, personal, individual: one has to answer it for oneself. He has been searching, casting about, even flailing for the answer for years-to no avail.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0670892734
- ISBN 13 9780670892730
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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