A Stone Boat

by Andrew Solomon (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.36

  From the author of the acclaimed The Noonday Demon comes an exquisitely perceptive story of family, sexuality, and the changes wrought by grief and loss. Harry, an internationally celebrated concert pianist, arrives in Paris to confront his glamorous mother about his homosexuality. Instead, he discovers that she is terminally ill. In an attempt to escape his feelings of guilt and depression at the prospect of her death, he embarks on a series of intense love affairs. But as time runs out and tragedy looms closer, it is the relationship between Harry and his mother that emerges in all its stark simplicity and purity. Part eulogy and part confession, A Stone Boat is a luminous and moving evocation of the love between a son and his mother.

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.36

  Part eulogy, part confession, this novel is an intense exploration of a mother/son relationship. Harry, the narrator, is a young, wealthy and talented pianist. He lives in London and New York and, when his mother is found to have cancer, he lives increasingly in the breached world of his family.