Tanner shows readers how Robinson's texts offer the context of daily life and elevate that everyday life to the symbolic ... Robinson is one of the fierce voices of the present time, and this book is an important look at her novels.
Laura E. Tanner is Professor of English at Boston College, where she teaches classes on American fiction of the last century. Her publications include Lost Bodies: Inhabiting the Borders of Life and Death (Cornell, 2006) and Intimate Violence: Representations of Rape and Torture in Twentieth-Century Fiction (Indiana UP, 1994), as well as numerous essays on modern and contemporary literature and theories of the body.