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Stone Arabia : a novel

Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta's acclaimed third novel, is about family, celebrity and obsession. It's about the urge to create, and the search for authenticity.

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  • "Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta's acclaimed third novel, is about family, celebrity and obsession. It's about the urge to create, and the search for authenticity."@en
  • "Denise and Nik grew up in the '70s LA music scene. Nik ? handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting ? was a star on the rise. Denise, his sister, was his biggest fan. Now, fleeting success long behind him, Nik makes his art in isolation, painstakingly documenting his own work. Denise is his most devoted audience?sometimes his only audience. Then her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film revealing Nik's underground career."
  • "Sharing a close bond that supersedes other relationships, Nik, a fiercely reclusive musician, and Denise, his dedicated sister and solitary audience member, become increasingly isolated in the wake of Nik's obsessive work."@en
  • "Sharing a close bond that supersedes other relationships, Nik, a fiercely reclusive musician, and Denise, his dedicated sister and solitary audience member, become increasingly isolated in the wake of Nik's obsessive work."
  • "Stone Arabia, Dana Spiotta's moving and intrepid third novel, is about family, obsession, memory, and the urge to create'in isolation, at the margins of our winner-take-all culture. In the sibling relationship, "there are no first impressions, no seductions, no getting to know each other," says Denise Kranis. For her and her brother, Nik, now in their forties, no relationship is more significant. They grew up in Los Angeles in the late seventies and early eighties. Nik was always the artist, always wrote music, always had a band. Now he makes his art in private, obsessively documenting the work, but never testing it in the world. Denise remains Nik's most passionate and acute audience, sometimes his only audience. She is also her family's first defense against the world's fragility. Friends die, their mother's memory and mind unravel, and the news of global catastrophe and individual tragedy haunts Denise. When her daughter, Ada, decides to make a film about Nik, everyone's vulnerabilities seem to escalate. Dana Spiotta has established herself as a "singularly powerful and provocative writer" (The Boston Globe) whose work is fiercely original. Stone Arabia'riveting, unnerving, and strangely beautiful'reexamines what it means to be an artist and redefines the ties that bind."@en

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