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Free Books for Summer: “Cost” by Roxana Robinson

by BudParr | MetaxuCafe on June 18, 2008

The week’s free book is Cost by Roxana Robinson. This time I won’t ask any arcane questions, so just drop a line to with Cost in the subject line and say something nice in the message and I’ll mail the book out to you. This book, by the way, is a very nice first edition hard cover.

Here’s the scoop on the book and be sure to check out Roxana’s journal: http://www.roxanarobinson.com/pgs/journal_frame.html

COST (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG, June 10; a Spring 2008 “Good Reads” Pick of the National Book Critics Circle) by Roxana Robinson (http://www.roxanarobinson.com)

Vanity Fair says, “COST artfully portrays a family transformed by the far-reaching consequences of a son’s heroin addiction.” And Jennifer Egan notes, “COST is a gritty portrait.... Roxana Robinson’s vivid, sensuous prose moves effortlessly among relationships and points of view, evoking a brutal war between familial love--in its infinite power and mystery--and the mechanical devastations of pathology.”

“Robinson paints a chilling portrait of addiction, depicting heroin junkies in particular as ruthless in pursuit of their highs and rehab as hardly more than a crapshoot.  There’s little solace here, except in the accumulation of wisdom and softening of old resentments as the appealing, astutely drawn characters come together.  We can’t always save each other, but there’s a kind of redemption in the fight.”—People Magazine ("People Pick,” ***1/2 stars out of 4)

“Roxana Robinson’s latest novel, Cost, is an emotionally incisive story about change—the permeable bonds between family members and an individual’s fluctuating sense of self… The language is strong—occasionally lyrical but always tight—and Robinson’s penchant for detail eventually pushes this messy family drama to a succinct point: Relationships define who we are, whether we like it or not.”—Time Out New York (four stars)

Roxana Robinson is the author of three earlier novels and three short-story collections, as well as a biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times, Best American Short Stories and Vogue, among others. She has received Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. She teaches at the New School in New York.

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