Rockaway: A Novel by Tara Ison - Reviewed by David Cooper

Posted by Sandy Tankoos on June 15, 2013 - 12:01am

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Mr. Delillo’s quote also applies the other quiet arts. Sarah is a 34-year-old aspiring painter from the San Diego suburb La Jolla who, with an offer of a gallery exhibition contingent on her creating a new body of work, has arranged an extended stay during the spring and summer of 2001 in her best friend’s grandmother’s house on the beach in Rockaway, a peninsula shaped neighborhood of Queens on the Atlantic Ocean, in order to paint without distractions.

Tara Ison’s third novel Rockaway is an account of how Sarah squanders that opportunity.

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