Off Season

ISBN-13: 9780299314606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 200 str.

Amy Hoffman

Opis

When Nora Griffin, an artist in her midthirties, moves from Brooklyn to Provincetown, she isn't looking for trouble. Her partner, Janelle, is recovering from breast cancer treatment, and together they've decided that the quiet off-season on the tip of Cape Cod is the perfect place for Janelle to heal and Nora to paint. Then charismatic Baby Harris flirts into Nora's life in her red cowboy boots.

In the damp, windy winter, Nora contends with heartbreak, aging, and local environmental worries, while painting what she hopes will be her masterpiece. Along the way, she encounters the chain-smoking, motor scooter-driving landlady Miss Ruby; Reverend Patsy, the vegan minister of the Unitarian church; and Brunhilde, barista extraordinaire and rival for Baby's affections. As the first tourists begin to arrive in June, Nora must decide what she really wants from life.

Spis treści

• The Vortex
• The Gravitron Starship               
• The Good Healer  
• Trouble  
• Superpowers  
• Pink Towel
• My Heart   
• Asparagus 
• The Universe Comes to a Halt but Quickly Starts Up Again
• Miss Ruby 
• Bitches  
• The Green Teddy  
• The White Pickup Truck   
• Pulling Espresso
• When I Paint My Masterpiece  
• Philosophy
• Public Education   
• Vegan Pizza
• My Studio 
• Wheat Paste
• Tagging 
• Stop & Shop  
• The Mural  
• Miss Ruby Sits  
• Dyke Drama
• Jellyfish 
• Dreams R2B Realized  
• The Shopping Cart Protest
• Roger Gets Over It 
• Wet Suits  
• The Ballad of Tony and Ruby  
• Signatures 
• Where Baby Comes From 
• False Pretenses  
• The Special Town Meeting 
• All Other Boxes
• Margot and Marcus 
• Triangles and Squares
• The Call 
• The Swim  
• Eyes Open 
• A Little Rouge 
• Open Studio
• L’Heure Bleue  
• Janelle
• Present Tense 
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• Afterword 
• Acknowledgments