{"title":"Cynthia Zarin","description":"Cynthia Zarin is the author of the novel Inverno; six books of poetry, including Orbit and Next Day: New and Selected Poems; five books for children; and two essay collections, Two Cities and An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York City.","products":[{"product_id":"estate-hardcover","title":"Estate - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the celebrated poet and author of the critically acclaimed novel \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e comes a mesmerizing new novel, \u003ci\u003eEstate.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCaroline, separated from her husband, finds herself drawn to Lorenzo, who has not one but two other lovers. In these propulsive pages, Caroline herself speaks during a summer of erotic intensity and crisis, recording the stories of seduction, deception, and make-believe she and Lorenzo tell each other--but how true are any of them? Not a sequel to Cynthia Zarin's \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e but an astounding mirror image in which revelations and responsibilities collide, \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e is a tight, compressed tour de force that sweeps across time and space, from New Guinea to word games, Italian cinema to communication theory, bringing to mind Annie Ernaux and Elena Ferrante, charting the exigencies of desire--and asking how can a person disappear in a hall of stories and reflections? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMany of your stories are about this, how you acquired the last thing you wanted\u003c\/i\u003e, says Caroline to Lorenzo. But what does Caroline want? How elastic is love? Of \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Sigrid Nunez wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"To see the chaos of suffering shaped into something beautiful is one of the main reasons we turn to art.\" In \u003ci\u003eEstate\u003c\/i\u003e, a summer counterpart to wintry \u003ci\u003eInverno\u003c\/i\u003e, Caroline reassembles her field of vision from a trove of gleaming shards.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102537978079,"sku":"9780374610166","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/7nAMxwJzBZ9780374610166.webp?v=1781083446"},{"product_id":"inverno-paperback","title":"Inverno - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA daring, heartbreaking novel, \u003ci\u003eInverno \u003c\/i\u003eis the book that J. D. Salinger's Franny Glass might have written a few decades into her adulthood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eInverno \u003c\/i\u003eis a love story that stretches across decades. \u003ci\u003eInverno \u003c\/i\u003eis also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her phone to ring, yards from where, thirty years ago, Alastair, as a boy, hid in the trees. Will he call? Won't he? The story moves the way the mind does: years flash by in an instant--now we are in the perilous world of fairy tale, now stranded anew in childhood, with its sorrows and harsh words. Ever present are the complicated negotiations of the heart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis brilliantly original novel by Cynthia Zarin, author of \u003ci\u003eAn Enlarged Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, is a kaleidoscope in which the past and the present shatter. Elliptical and inventive in the mode of Elizabeth Hardwick's \u003ci\u003eSleepless Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInverno \u003c\/i\u003eis miraculous and startling. It asks, How does love make and unmake a life?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103708844255,"sku":"9781250338174","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/9BHTUlpf7Q9781250338174.webp?v=1781097479"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/cynthia-zarin.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}