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...blames him for her mother's death, banishes her stepfather from his own house on the pretext that she cannot care for him. Like King Lear, the elderly patriarch is forced to seek the generosity of his progeny. Luckily for him, his youngest daughter, a kind soul named Roxana, welcomes her parent, despite the fact that she dwells in a tiny tenement in Pleasant Villa with her husband and two sons...
...fully engage with your own humanity. In the hospital, Nariman, pondering an older orderly, wonders if "collecting feces and urine from the beds of the lame and the halt and the diseased" might be the "necessary conditions" for achieving enlightenment. Watching her youngest boy feed his grandfather, Roxana decides she is "witnessing something almost sacred...
...Roxana Robinson is a fly on the wall in the world of the Wasp. The people in her stories are inheritors of urbanity and indulgences. They belong to garden and bridge clubs; they have exceptional houses, servants, luxuries -- and woes. A Glimpse of Scarlet (HarperCollins; 200 pages; $18.95) watches a divorced mother betrayed by her son's prep school roommate; a man's failing eyesight turn into a "treason of the body"; wavering between wife and mistress, a publishing executive experiences moral vertigo in his ordered world; a wife holds her husband up to public ridicule, only to have things...
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: A LIFE by Roxana Robinson...
...recapture that elemental radiance on paper and canvas. The quest began obscurely on the loam of Sun Prairie, Wis., and ended famously in the desert of Abiquiu, N. Mex. O'Keeffe was the daughter of an Irish-American farmer and a Hungarian American of aristocratic descent. As art historian Roxana Robinson discloses in this romantic but insightful biography, both strains were apparent from the beginning. The child had six siblings, and she could be highly social and convivial. But it took great effort, and she once admitted, "I don't take easily to being with people...