Glimpse

Liza Baker is a rising Abstract Expressionist artist who becomes pregnant and faces challenges in her career. She takes a teaching job and struggles in the male-dominated art world. Her former lover achieves fame, while she develops a drinking problem and struggles with her relationship with her daughter, Rouge.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 28 June 2021
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she becomes pregnant and decides to have the child. Despite conventional wisdom, she is convinced that she can have a successful career and be a good mother to her daughter, Rouge. She takes a job teaching at a college and faces the harsh realities of the male-dominated art world. Unable to build a successful career, she watches as her former lover, whose work resembles hers, skyrocket to fame. Liza develops a drinking problem and often brings home artist lovers she meets in the city. When Rouge meets Ben Fuller, one of Liza's discarded lovers who subsequently fosters Rouge's talent in photography, the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship takes on the added charge of a competition between the two. Liza tries to sabotage this competition.

THE GLIMPSE is a moving, unsentimental tale of the charged New York art world of the 1950s and the relationship between a mother and daughter as they grapple with their relationship that becomes pivotal to their artwork. Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she becomes pregnant and decides to have the child. Despite conventional wisdom, she is convinced that she can have a successful career and be a good mother to her daughter, Rouge. She takes a job teaching at a college and faces the harsh realities of the male-dominated art world. Unable to build a successful career, she watches as her former lover, whose work resembles hers, skyrocket to fame. Liza develops a drinking problem and often brings home artist lovers she meets in the city. When Rouge meets Ben Fuller, one of Liza's discarded lovers who subsequently fosters Rouge's talent in photography, the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship takes on the added charge of a competition between the two. Liza tries to sabotage this competition.

THE GLIMPSE is a moving, unsentimental tale of the charged New York art world of the 1950s and the relationship between a mother and daughter as they grapple with their relationship that becomes pivotal to their artwork. Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she becomes pregnant and decides to have the child. Despite conventional wisdom, she is convinced that she can have a successful career and be a good mother to her daughter, Rouge. She takes a job teaching at a college and faces the harsh realities of the male-dominated art world. Unable to build a successful career, she watches as her former lover, whose work resembles hers, skyrocket to fame. Liza develops a drinking problem and often brings home artist lovers she meets in the city. When Rouge meets Ben Fuller, one of Liza's discarded lovers who subsequently fosters Rouge's talent in photography, the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship takes on the added charge of a competition between the two. Liza tries to sabotage this competition.

THE GLIMPSE is a moving, unsentimental tale of the charged New York art world of the 1950s and the relationship between a mother and daughter as they grapple with their relationship that becomes pivotal to their artwork. Liza Baker, a rising star in the burgeoning Abstract Expressionist era, finds herself sidelined when she becomes pregnant and decides to have the child. Despite conventional wisdom, she is convinced that she can have a successful career and be a good mother to her daughter, Rouge. She takes a job teaching at a college and faces the harsh realities of the male-dominated art world. Unable to build a successful career, she watches as her former lover, whose work resembles hers, skyrocket to fame. Liza develops a drinking problem and often brings home artist lovers she meets in the city. When Rouge meets Ben Fuller, one of Liza's discarded lovers who subsequently fosters Rouge's talent in photography, the complexity of the mother-daughter relationship takes on the added charge of a competition between the two. Liza tries to sabotage this competition.

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 129 x 199 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800462953