Dinner in the Labyrinth A Novel edition by Douglas Atwill Literature Fiction eBooks
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Graham Obermann is an established biographer of the Post-Impressionists. He is married to Celia Prosper, a modernist painter well-regarded by critics and collectors. As Obermann organizes a birthday party for Celia, looking after all the details, he descr
Dinner in the Labyrinth A Novel edition by Douglas Atwill Literature Fiction eBooks
A Santa Fe birthday dinner party (with surprises of course) is the culmination of this gracefully written tale about pedigree families with sordid secrets, complicated relationships, and the hidden and open sexual longing of two men, lovers, whose lives we follow for fifty years into the present. The author, a well-known Santa Fe artist and writer, is particularly skilled in describing the local art world, contemporary art history, and the granular life of everyday painting, and for that matter, writing. The calm objectivity of the prose, jumping back and forth in time, heightens the tension in this novel of manners, and keeps you turning the two hundred some pages.Product details
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Dinner in the Labyrinth A Novel edition by Douglas Atwill Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
"Atwill's latest novel DINNER IN THE LABYRINTH describes the strange goings on leading up to a large family dinner party in Santa Fe. As author Graham Obermann prepares to celebrate his artist wife Celia's birthday, his other lover Karl, Celia's brother, enters the festivities. Atwill's sophicticated story and elegant writing style brings to mind a more graceful era in times past. Whoever said Santa Fe's exotic arts scene was as normal as blueberry pie?" ---- Walter Cooper
Love Douglas Atwill's characters and writing style, would love to be a guest at this table!
Atwill’s novel, Dinner in the Labyrinth, at first recalls in structure Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway, the story taking place in a single day as art critic and writer Graham Obermann prepares an evening birthday dinner-celebration for his successful artist wife, Celia Prosper, and reflects on their life together. In other ways the novel recalls Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, the story of an outsider finding his way into a family with very strained dynamics. Thus the first narrative is intertwined with a subtly revealing and engaging account of how Graham became involved with the Prospers who live together in the fictional Santa Fe-area family compound of El Molino.
Graham must find his footing within the already strained dynamics of the family, even as he seeks to balance his love for both Celia and her brother Karl. The emotional restraint of Atwill’s writing almost belies the passions that from time to time erupt throughout the novel in unexpected and shocking ways. But it is in those moments that we understand what is at stake for this family.
Amazing book, well-crafted and beautifully written. A provocative story that simply carried me along, like a love song. As some family sagas, it has its dark secrets, forbidden loves, and deep wounds that spread like faint spider webs across the generations, but Atwill brings lightness and clarity, almost a zen-like attitude, to his clan. The primary relationship between Graham Obermann and brother in law Karl Prosper unfolds with sheer elegance. A delicate love is maintained through a balance of compassion, respect, and acceptance for all. Particularly enjoyable is what only someone like Atwill can provide, as a painter of New Mexico landscapes as well as an author, and that is a porthole view into the passionate inner life of the artist - the journey through time where ideas and inspirations are continually born, how they take form and grow, become nurtured by friends, and ultimately impacted by a dynamic universe. Atwill's sketches throughout are a real treat.
Complicated relations, complex love, one wonders if all artist are so free to live as they please. Skipping back from present day, Graham reflects on how his enchanted life developed as it did. Artists and writers will love the technical descriptions, but laymen will delight in all he is saying. Be prepared to be pampered as Atwill brings you to the dinner table with this unusual, extended family and band of lovers. One should be so lucky to be so loved.
An advanced copy of this book was provided for an honest review.
A very interesting and readable novel which great characters and quite a story line.
A Santa Fe birthday dinner party (with surprises of course) is the culmination of this gracefully written tale about pedigree families with sordid secrets, complicated relationships, and the hidden and open sexual longing of two men, lovers, whose lives we follow for fifty years into the present. The author, a well-known Santa Fe artist and writer, is particularly skilled in describing the local art world, contemporary art history, and the granular life of everyday painting, and for that matter, writing. The calm objectivity of the prose, jumping back and forth in time, heightens the tension in this novel of manners, and keeps you turning the two hundred some pages.
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