Book description
In the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin
turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and blocked, desired and
detested, infamous and sublime, as they struggle beneath the tyranny of
Art to reconcile their audience with their muse. The last stories in the
collection take us to Rome and a room with a limited view, and to a
Brooklyn studio where a window opens onto limitless space. In the
Eternal City an American poet is forced to choose between her lover, a
dancer who has outraged academe, and a world so alien it takes her voice
away. In the final story, a print maker, who has reached a certain age,
enters so deeply into the magical world of her imagination that she can
never find her way back.
