![]() Through Black’s gorgeous blend of personal narrative and incisive close reading, Virginia Woolf’s novel becomes again fresh and contemporary, while at the same time deeper in its mysteries. Dalloway is a high-powered loupe revealing new brilliances in an priceless old jewel. It’s a privilege to read alongside her.”- Alice Eliot Dark ![]() ![]() She generously shares details of her own life that offer an example of how a great book stays with a person, and goes deep into the intricacies of important craft aspects of the text, illuminating its brilliance. “I loved reading Robin Black’s take on Mrs. Dalloway is like eavesdropping on a mesmerizing literary conversation, but one in which the participants are not two readers but a reader and a masterpiece. Black threads the very moving story of her own evolution as a writer through the exquisite fabric of Woolf’s great novel, and the result will fascinate everyone who cares about the craft of fiction.”- Ann Packer “Reading Robin Black’s astute and enlightening meditation on Mrs. I emerged from this breathtaking work with a transformed understanding of both Woolf’s masterpiece and the stream of consciousness in which we swim, “together and alone.”- Karen Russell This astonishing new book, by the brilliant Robin Black is an intimate meditation on reading and writing, aftermath and possibility, the tension between the never-stable, endlessly interpretable depths of a book and the fragility of life, the finality of death. ![]()
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