{"product_id":"a-desert-of-pure-feeling-paperback","title":"A Desert of Pure Feeling - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the writer whose voice Carolyn See has characterized as one of the strangest, most distinguished in American fiction writing today (\"There is really nothing to compare her with, except, maybe, the austere beauty of a Japanese rock garden\"), here is a richly dramatic novel about a woman struggling to make peace with herself as a mother, a lover, an artist, and a friend. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucy Patterson has just encountered her past in the person of a man whom she has not seen for twenty-five years. Dr. Carlos Cabrera saved the life of her infant son, and it was her love for him that compelled her to end her marriage -- the first moment in an arc of emotional turbulence and upheaval that has since defined her existence. Her past having caught up with her, Lucy has come to an isolated motel in the desert outside Las Vegas to write out her life, reexamine it, and, she hopes, find its calm center. It's a journey she is determined to make alone, but in the next room is a young woman -- a single mother, stripper, and prostitute panicked about her own life -- whom Lucy finds she cannot, and finally does not want to, ignore. A fiercely odd pair, they nonetheless become indispensable to each other in navigating the emotional terrain of their past and in finding, separately and together, clear paths into the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Desert of Pure Feeling\u003c\/b\u003e is the finest work we have yet seen from a writer whose gifts, at once lyrical and tough-minded, become vividly apparent in this penetrating and compelling story.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the writer whose voice Carolyn See has characterized as one of the strangest, most distinguished in American fiction writing today (\"There is really nothing to compare her with, except, maybe, the austere beauty of a Japanese rock garden\"), here is a richly dramatic novel about a woman struggling to make peace with herself as a mother, a lover, an artist, and a friend. \u003cbr\u003eLucy Patterson has just encountered her past in the person of a man whom she has not seen for twenty-five years. Dr. Carlos Cabrera saved the life of her infant son, and it was her love for him that compelled her to end her marriage -- the first moment in an arc of emotional turbulence and upheaval that has since defined her existence. Her past having caught up with her, Lucy has come to an isolated motel in the desert outside Las Vegas to write out her life, reexamine it, and, she hopes, find its calm center. It's a journey she is determined to make alone, but in the next room is a young woman -- a single mother, stripper, and prostitute panicked about her own life -- whom Lucy finds she cannot, and finally does not want to, ignore. A fiercely odd pair, they nonetheless become indispensable to each other in navigating the emotional terrain of their past and in finding, separately and together, clear paths into the future. \u003cbr\u003eA Desert of Pure Feeling is the finest work we have yet seen from a writer whose gifts, at once lyrical and tough-minded, become vividly apparent in this penetrating and compelling story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith Freeman is the author of three novels-\u003cb\u003eThe Chinchilla Farm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSet for Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003cb\u003eA Desert of Pure Feeling\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003eand of \u003cb\u003eFamily Attractions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of stories. She lives in California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 8.5 x 5.58 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 27, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698386604128,"sku":"9780679752714","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0598\/1922\/9280\/files\/0bc5d89a2bace55d47aad597cd46f3ad.webp?v=1775833984","url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/a-desert-of-pure-feeling-paperback","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}