Full Description
Because Lex Runciman gives himself to it with such unreserved and, more distinctively, unembarrassed attention, the domestic world - the world of the household, backyard, the neighbourhood street - is flooded with a pathos, a quality of light, a delicious and familiar beauty that one sees in the paintings of Vermeer. In the range of its ideas and responses, in the gravity of its concerns, this book is refreshingly, disarmingly large.
Contents
Faces
Faces
Repetitions
Field
Robert Frost
Viewers
Narrative
Before Sleep
Grosbeaks
December 7
Nostalgia
1970, Santa Clara, Reading the Names
Family Albums
Fairmoor
Jerome, Arizona
Touring Arizona
1492 Fremont
Fairmoor
Arrival
Parochial
Furniture
Flood Waters
This Hour
The Biographer's Art
Postcard
Child
Vermeer: The Music Lesson
Waiting for Nothing
Harbor
The Biographer's Art
Walkers
House
Zuelke's
After Drought
Noise
Fathers and Infants
Power Outage
July at the 45th Parallel
Indulgence
Blue
City of Roses
All Day the Sea
Walkers
