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When Ann's childhood friend Hannah Wilke dies and is buried in Green River, the famous East Hampton cemetery which contains the graves of Abstract Expessionist painters Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Frank O'Hara, and Stuart Davis, Ann seeks out the graveyard. She becomes obsessed with the graves of women artists, mostly wives of more famous men, and she imagines that Lee and Elaine get a second chance and come back as lesbians.
Such speculation is never innocent and the narrator finds that her own life is turned upside down as she falls in love with a woman student and abandons the security of her marital Soho loft. The invasive powers of fiction are brilliantly demonstrated in this wryly funny and mordant book about romance, life, death, and starting over.
A diehard New Yorker, Ann Rower is the author of If You're a Girl (Native Agents) and Armed Response (Serpent's Tail) which is her celebration of the death of her uncle Leo Robin, who wrote "Thanks for the Memory" and "Diamonds are A Girl's Best Friend" and many other songs. She is currently living in Bisbee, Arizona and thinking of teaching a course on "Writing on Horseback" at the local college.
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Teresa Edwards
reviewed Lee and Elaine, Vol. 1 on July 26, 2020
Lee and Elaine, Vol. 1
October, 2018: This time on audio, my new favorite of the Jacqueline Kirby mysteries because of all the publishers/authors fun that Peters put in, and her capitulation to her desire to depict Jacqueline Kirby as a sassier alter-ego for herself. There are some dropped threads here and the solution is not entirely fair but JK is much kinder than she has been in previous books so I liked it better. Read by Grace Conlin on Hoopla audio accessed through my public library.
2013: Jacqueline Kirby has become a best-selling author and she hopes to write a sequel to a missing author's big hit. This is very funny, although not as entertaining as Die for Love.
I am trying to decide if the reason I like JK least of Elizabeth Peters's series heroines is that Jake is so self-assured as to be annoying to me (I suspect anyone who is so sure of herself to be a bully, which may not be fair) or because the characterization is so much thinner than in the Amelia books. I liked JK better as a librarian than as an author.
Missing Elizabeth Peters already. Also worth noting: JK does the Kindly Brontosaurus so recently promoted in Slate! Naturally it gets her what she wants. Kirby always wins.
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