Light on a Part of the Field

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781774390153

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>In his evocative debut novel, <i>Light on&#10;a Part of the Field</i>, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling&#10;with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to&#10;mend. Set in BC and Alberta in the 1960s and 1970s, this is a novel of finely&#10;observed vignettes offering a refracted look at art and family in the modern&#10;West.</p><p>A young artist, Ruth, and her obsessive husband, an&#10;aspiring poet, are struck by lightning, an experience that throws their lives&#10;into a universe of intense beauty and angst. Years later, Ruth lives on a farm&#10;her husband bought before his mysterious disappearance, and she creates idyllic&#10;but na&#239;ve paintings to cope with her confusion and loss. Then, without warning,&#10;her eldest daughter Gayle is love-struck by a travelling stranger and runs off&#10;to Edmonton where she too must contend with poverty, sickness, and her father&#8217;s&#10;upsetting legacy. Meanwhile, farm-bound Ruth becomes more frantic in her work&#10;and begins longing for human contact as her house and animals disintegrate&#10;around her.</p><p>&#8232;As Gayle and Ruth seek new ways of connecting in&#10;order to remedy their unsettling family legacy, they begin a complicated&#10;process of renewal and must decide whether they can reconcile despite all the&#10;pain they have caused one another.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>In his evocative debut novel, <i>Light on&#10;a Part of the Field</i>, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling&#10;with artistic ambition, mental illness, and rifts that may not be possible to&#10;mend. Set in BC and Alberta in the 1960s and 1970s, this is a novel of finely&#10;observed vignettes offering a refracted look at art and family in the modern&#10;West.</p><p>A young artist, Ruth, and her obsessive husband, an&#10;aspiring poet, are struck by lightning, an experience that throws their lives&#10;into a universe of intense beauty and angst. Years later, Ruth lives on a farm&#10;her husband bought before his mysterious disappearance, and she creates idyllic&#10;but na&#239;ve paintings to cope with her confusion and loss. Then, without warning,&#10;her eldest daughter Gayle is love-struck by a travelling stranger and runs off&#10;to Edmonton where she too must contend with poverty, sickness, and her father&#8217;s&#10;upsetting legacy. Meanwhile, farm-bound Ruth becomes more frantic in her work&#10;and begins longing for human contact as her house and animals disintegrate&#10;around her.</p><p>&#8232;As Gayle and Ruth seek new ways of connecting in&#10;order to remedy their unsettling family legacy, they begin a complicated&#10;process of renewal and must decide whether they can reconcile despite all the&#10;pain they have caused one another.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;