Rowing Lesson

Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fireand passion.J.M. CoetzeeThe beauty of The <strong>Rowing Lesson</strong> is in its fluidm... » 

Rarely in South African writing will we encounter language of such fireand passion.J.M. CoetzeeThe beauty of The Rowing Lesson is in its fluidmetaphors its urgent storytelling . . . and the lyric desperation of adaughters love.O MagazineBeautiful. . . . Unfailingly original.Jennifer EganVisceral. . . . Intensely exhilarating.The New York TimesBook ReviewLike Joyce or William Gass or John Edgar Wideman Anne Landsmanfashions a sensual web of memory and desire rescuing a world on the brink ofextinction through the power of her lyricism.Stewart ONanAmazing.LosAngeles TimesA tour de force.Roxana RobinsonAn adventure inlanguage. . . . It makes art of life.Louis MenandBetsy Klein is summonedfrom her home in the United States to the bedside of her dying father in aSouth African hospital. Faced with having to say goodbye she delves into hismind speaking to him in the lyrical secondperson. She imaginatively recreateshis lifehis struggles to become a doctor after being orphaned young and hisfight to win the respect of his Boer patients as a Jewas well as her ownexperiences with him as a father.Anne Landsman was born and raised in SouthAfrica and received degrees from the University of Cape Town and ColumbiaUniversity. Her debut novel The Devils Chimney also set in South Africawas a Book of the Month Club Quality Paperback Selection and was nominated fora PENHemingway Award. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and twochildren. «