Lily Beach: A Novel
by Jennie Fields | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0689121768 Global Overview for this book
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Lily Beach is the electrifyingly sensual and revealing story of one young woman and the men in her life. Opening on election night of 1960, a time when other young women are concerned with twin sweater sets, bouffant hairdos, and saying no, Lily has discovered that sex is a Pandora's box, a source of pleasure that, once revealed, can no longer be controlled. A gifted artist, "what the other students call Bohemian, her clothes always black or the color of bruises, wrapping her body with easy intimacy," Lily makes other women nervous and astonishes the men who are drawn to her. The most important of these are three: a fellow art student with whom she begins a darkly sexual affair that will endure well into their marriages with other people; the icily brilliant man she will marry, a man who sees her as a virgin princess too exalted to touch, though he knows her most fearful secret; and, finally, her art professor, an aging South American exile whose own tragedy will allow him to recognize Lily's deep underlying sadness and to reach out to her as no one else has. From the earliest moments of the Kennedy years to the end of the anarchic sixties, we share with Lily her passions, her dreams, and the startling incident that will transform her life, in a debut novel that will strike deep chords of recognition in readers everywhere.
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Lily Beach is the electrifyingly sensual and revealing story of one young woman and the men in her life. Opening on election night of 1960, a time when other young women are concerned with twin sweater sets, bouffant hairdos, and saying no, Lily has discovered that sex is a Pandora's box, a source of pleasure that, once revealed, can no longer be controlled. A gifted artist, "what the other students call Bohemian, her clothes always black or the color of bruises, wrapping her body with easy intimacy," Lily makes other women nervous and astonishes the men who are drawn to her. The most important of these are three: a fellow art student with whom she begins a darkly sexual affair that will endure well into their marriages with other people; the icily brilliant man she will marry, a man who sees her as a virgin princess too exalted to touch, though he knows her most fearful secret; and, finally, her art professor, an aging South American exile whose own tragedy will allow him to recognize Lily's deep underlying sadness and to reach out to her as no one else has. From the earliest moments of the Kennedy years to the end of the anarchic sixties, we share with Lily her passions, her dreams, and the startling incident that will transform her life, in a debut novel that will strike deep chords of recognition in readers everywhere.
