A Green Isle in the Sea Love, by Elisabeth Stevens
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A Green Isle in the Sea Love, by Elisabeth Stevens
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A line from Edgar Allan Poe's poem, ''To a Lost Love,'' provides the title for Elisabeth Stevens' elegiac, provocative, and sexy new novel of the 1950's. A Green Isle in the Sea, Love returns to that calm, politically and sexually conservative era of Post World War II optimism before the angry years of racial violence and feminist protest that followed. Stevens, whose sensual and plain-spoken collection of love poems, Sirens' Songs, was named one of the 100 best indie books of 2011 by Kirkus, depicts Amy, a naive, 22-year-old heroine who comes to New York City from a small upstate town to prove that she can be a great painter.
Amy paints, but she also falls in love with Charlie, a conventional businessman who believes in ''progress.'' Soon, she sees that the successful artists in the city are men, and that unmarried women such Charlie's long-widowed mother, who runs the family insurance agency, or her recently-widowed mother, who wants Amy to come home, have unfulfilled lives. Even Duncan, Charlie's brilliant, free-living half-brother, a world traveler, risks disappointment when he falls in love with Blanche, ''the most beautiful girl in New York.''
In a troubling world which in some ways resembles that of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Amy resists mounting depression and confusion and Charlie's pressure to ''do the right thing'' and get married. She instead keeps working on a strange, unstylish painting of a chimera, which she can't seem to finish.
A Green Isle in the Sea Love, by Elisabeth Stevens- Amazon Sales Rank: #4045438 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-26
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .80" w x 6.00" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 274 pages
Review "... a fluidly written and engaging exploration of one young woman's angst." - Kirkus ReviewsStevens' fifth collection, Sirens' Songs was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the hundred best indie books of 2011. --Endorsement
About the Author Author-artist Elisabeth Stevens was born in Rome, NY, lived in NYC and the metropolitan area, and spent several decades in Baltimore. She now lives and works in Sarasota, FL. She is the author of 6 books of poetry, six books of short fiction, and many monographs, articles, and reviews about art, artists, and writers. A former art and architecture critic for The Baltimore Sun and a former art critic for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Trenton Times, Stevens is a graduate of Wellesley College. She received a Masters Degree in Modern Literature from Columbia University. A ''word-picture person,'' Stevens has designed and illustrated many of her books with original graphics.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Love captured my interest immediately By joan lyon This is a meaty novel. A Green Isle in the Sea, Love captured my interest immediately, and I couldn’t put it down. There are many interesting, well delineated characters, but the story is basically about Amy, a painter, and Charlie, a businessman who meet and fall in love. The story takes place in the fifties, at a time when there are expectations for young women to marry and have babies and for young men to settle down and work to provide for their families. Charlie and Amy’s hopes and dreams collide with these expectations. There is great attention paid to the culture and the times they live in. The story moves back and forth as in a dream or a nightmare. There are wonderful passages about the power of art to move us, and the wonders of travelling the world which educate us and connects the past to the present and feed our souls. Time passes by with its sadness and happiness as the lovers try to find their way in the world and with each other.Elisabeth Steven’s language is descriptive and creative. Amy says, “People tell me things that sound right, and yet when I try to do what they say – it’s like putting on someone else’s clothes.” Or another quote, Amy thinks “at home Mother waited to press her into the past – like a cut flower saved between a Bible’s pages.”Throughout the book, as Charlie tries to find himself, Amy struggles to complete a painting of a chimera, a potent symbol of an illusion or mirage, hoping for a happy and fulfilling life together. This fascinating novel may be autobiographical as Elisabeth Stevens is a wonderful artist as well as a prizewinning author, and the chimera illustration on the cover of the book was created by Elisabeth Stevens.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Inexorable Love By Critically thinking Searcher The novel—A Green Isle In the Sea, Love—has a very good narrative, especially if one is piqued by the unusual. Set in a culturally distinct period, when the nation was reviving and changing after World War Two, this tale is told using the inner voices and intuited expectations of several characters, with interspersed dialogue. It devolves around many themes in a cohering and completing way— touching upon inter-generational tentacles; the uncertainty principle of personal interaction; sensory immersion, as influenced by room and landscape impressions; obsessive compulsion; inflexibility; rebellion against imagined futures; psychological ‘catch 22s;’ a meaning of human life as mental value judgement—abstracted; stress and desire; mental and physical icons; interdiction of communication; putative transmission of abilities along branches of family trees; perceptual and emotional manifestations during body failure; and the stimulus of the ‘hidden forest,’ in the environs of New York City, where time may be suspended. Allusion to Academe; class status; the worlds of art, archaeology, and business; sailing and its misadventures; and exotic places in the world—embedded in the plot—means this read does not drag anywhere. It moves quickly with its current of the psycho-sexual tension of romance. If you want to be swept away by illustrations that we are propelled by cravings that we don’t control and sometimes don’t even recognize, read this book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The work of a poet/artist/journalist By Elisavietta Ritchie Review of Green IsleElisabeth Stevens is an artist, etcher and poet as well as a novelist, journalist and art critic. Thus A Green Isle in the Sea of Love, her eighth work of fiction, glows with color, intricate observations whether of people or scenery, lyrical language. Similes and metaphors are a normal part of speech and descriptions, observations only the most perceptive eyes and ears can come up with so naturally. As in these sentences resplendent in sensuality and narcissism, as well as observation of social structure:“The intertwined bodies of the line [of swimmers] resembled an Arcadian frieze. They were in love. They loved themselves. The young men’s hands lingered proudly on the muscles of their own arms. The girls reviewed their beauty in small, private mirrors. Everyone was always touching someone else—drawing away quickly, laughing, coming back. They moved like chains of flowers—undulating gently in the mild sea breeze.“The sea had drawn back to give them sand…They were the products of old, carefully mated families. Their bathing suits came from the same stores, their minds from the same schools….Like gnats blown to new a environment, they formed their little band again—circling each other…”The scene of a formal country club dance for local gentry, where a slightly bereaved young man spikes the punch, turns into a Bacchanalian orgy worthy of Heironymous Bosch.The scenes of first love and attempted violations thereof, and the desires of a creative individual to perfect her art and live for it, ring all too true.Others have written of the intricate plots and entangling characters in Elisabeth Stevens’ A Green Isle in the Sea of Love, her twentieth book. Her other books of poetry, fiction and bold line drawings and etchings are startling, sometimes shocking, and beautiful. Yet beyond these and focusing purely on style (or stylistics) in this novel, many a careful reader will want to exclaim again and again “Yes! Yes!” over even the gnat-sized details of observation, the perfect word, le mot juste.Green Isle is the work of an artist in every sense.
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