Still Life is a novella in iambic pentameter of artistic passion abandoned and the inherent risk of a life lived in full. Over several sun-saturated, color-fraught days in Capri and Rome, Anne struggles to confront herself and the life she accepted. The unexpected reappearance of her former lover and artistic foil calls that acceptance into question. But betrayal takes many forms. The demand of an enduring commitment to marriage, to art, even to perceived self-definition, can pose an existential threat to who one is and must be. In this deceptively simple story of a few days travel, we are carried along in a gently rocking rhythm to find that love, no less than beauty, can stand so starkly before us that it defies perception.
Still Life
Cover: softcover
Pages: 70
Size: 5.5"x8.25"x.25"