{"product_id":"lee-and-elaine-by-ann-rower","title":"Lee and Elaine by Ann Rower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSeparating from her long-term partner Jack and beginning a passionate affair with a much younger female student, the narrator of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLee and Elaine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes time off to write. Leaving Manhattan for an off-season Springs, East Hampton rental and haunting the Green River Cemetery where artistic giants of the mid-twentieth century are buried, she becomes obsessed with the lives and friendship of Lee Krasner and Elaine de Kooning, who were both artists and the wives of famous men. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey were always so peripheral\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, she writes. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSuddenly I wanted to find out about these women. Find them, period.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published by Serpent’s Tail’s in 2002, the novel was republished as an ebook in 2013 by Emily Books. Written with Rower’s trademark louche and brilliant, mouthy, and deceptively casual style, it remains a forgotten classic of the turn of the millennium. With piercing and hilarious straightforwardness, the narrator turns the process of unearthing art-world gossip and tearing down her own life’s substructure into a searching and original examination of sexuality and friendship, art and ambition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"upt-grey-background\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"site-container upt-author-page__top-section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"upt-author-page__top-section--author-details\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAnn Rower \u003c\/strong\u003ehas always lived, worked, and written in and around New York City. She is the author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf You’re A Girl\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArmed Response\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee \u0026amp; Elaine\u003c\/i\u003e. She has collaborated as a writer with the Wooster Group, and taught writing for decades at the School of Visual Arts.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Womb House Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52964376052021,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/6247\/9413\/files\/leeandelaine.jpg?v=1780608499","url":"https:\/\/wombhousebooks.com\/products\/lee-and-elaine-by-ann-rower","provider":"Womb House Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}