{"product_id":"like-a-lake-a-story-of-uneasy-love-and-photography-paperback-softback-9781531509941","title":"Like a Lake; A Story of Uneasy Love and Photography (Paperback \/ softback) 9781531509941","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLike a Lake\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Story of Uneasy Love and Photography\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarol Mavor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781531509941\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 June 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e144 pages, 17 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLike a Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is like a novella teasing an essay, or an erotic ghost haunting a fictional memoir, or a negative searching for its lost prints. It is an unnerving question-machine where desire, memory, loss and invention are staged, folded and held, tasted, re-made and undone. It’s a strange, vivid, troubling and beautiful book.\" - Max Porter\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLike a Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of where art comes from, the love and grief held in forms - a house, a cup, a photograph, a stone. The experience of reading this novel is lake-like - a beautiful surface opens, and opens, and opens and ripples with grief.\" - Jennifer Doyle, author of \u003ci\u003eHold It Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLike A Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is... like a lake. A famous one, Lake Tahoe, situated on the California\/Nevada border, features plot-wise and thematically in the book, almost flowing it together... an adventurous, even pioneering, book...\" - \u003ci\u003eSource Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vivid, imaginative response to the sensual and erotic in postwar American photography, with attention to the beauty of the nude, both male and female\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When photographer Coda Gray befriends a family with a special interest in a young boy, the motivation behind his special attention is difficult to grasp, \"like water slipping through our fingers.\" Can a man innocently love a boy who is not his own?\u003cbr\u003e Using fiction to reveal the truths about families, communities, art objects, love, and mourning, \u003ci\u003eLike a Lake\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of ten-year-old Nico, who lives with his father (an Italian- American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor who learned how to draw while interned during World War II). Set in the 1960s, this is a story of aesthetic perfection waiting to be broken. Nico's midcentury modern house, with its Italian pottery jars along the outside and its interior lit by Japanese lanterns. The elephant-hide gray, fiberglass reinforced plastic 1951 Eames rocking chair, with metal legs and birch runners. Clam consommé with kombu, giant kelp, yuzu rind, and a little fennel—in each bowl, two clams opened like a pair of butterflies, symbols of the happy couple. Nico's boyish delight in developing photographs under the red safety light of Coda's \"Floating Zendo\"— the darkroom boat that he keeps on Lake Tahoe.\u003cbr\u003e The lives of Nico, his parents, and Coda embody northern California's postwar landscape, giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles and poetic visions. Author Carol Mavor addresses the sensuality and complexity of a son's love for his mother and that mother's own erotic response to it. The relationship between the mother and son is paralleled by what it means for a boy to be a model for a male photographer and to be his muse. Just as water can freeze into snow and ice, melt back into water, and steam, love takes on new forms with shifts of atmosphere. \u003ci\u003eLike a Lake\u003c\/i\u003e's haunting images and sensations stay with the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMillions of Years Ago\u003c\/b\u003e   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMy Nico\u003c\/b\u003e   2\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eUnfolding a Flood\u003c\/b\u003e   4\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTurning the Key\u003c\/b\u003e   5\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Memory of Lake Tahoe \u003c\/b\u003e  16\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMy Mother's Eyes\u003c\/b\u003e   17\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMy Mother\u003c\/b\u003e   18\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e   21\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBy Chance\u003c\/b\u003e   25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhen Bamboo Shoots Poke Their Heads out of the Earth \u003c\/b\u003e  29\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBlue Rambler \u003c\/b\u003e  30\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTender Buttons\u003c\/b\u003e   47\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWaiting\u003c\/b\u003e   49\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRefusing to be Plucked \u003c\/b\u003e  55\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWe Want Roses \u003c\/b\u003e  56\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShe Sleeps with Him Every Night \u003c\/b\u003e  59\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShe-Wolf Made of Rock \u003c\/b\u003e  61\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBlue Ticket \u003c\/b\u003e  65\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLearning to Swim\u003c\/b\u003e   66\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFloating Studio, Floating Zendo \u003c\/b\u003e  67\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFannette\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eIsland \u003c\/b\u003e  76\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFloating Zendos and Mentorgartens \u003c\/b\u003e  79\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI Learned about Snowflakes \u003c\/b\u003e  82\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI Learned about the Birds of Lake Tahoe\u003c\/b\u003e   84\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSummer Snow Cake\u003c\/b\u003e   86\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLove or Affection\u003c\/b\u003e   88\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMary's Dream\u003c\/b\u003e   89\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEach Other's Pockets\u003c\/b\u003e   90\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBlack\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eCloth \u003c\/b\u003e  91\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBrown Kimono \u003c\/b\u003e  94\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSomething Broke \u003c\/b\u003e  96\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Voice of the Lake\u003c\/b\u003e   101\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMoon\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWriting\u003c\/b\u003e   102\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eArtichoke\u003c\/b\u003e   104\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eNo Name for Him\u003c\/b\u003e   107\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat's in a Name? \u003c\/b\u003e  108\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLike Piles of Laundry?\u003c\/b\u003e   109\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrozen Pond\u003c\/b\u003e   111\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCoda's Dream\u003c\/b\u003e   113\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLike Mother and Son \u003c\/b\u003e  114\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eFifteen\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eGood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ePrints\u003c\/b\u003e   115\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eGlass\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eMoon \u003c\/b\u003e  117\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTsukimi Udon (Moon Noodles)\u003c\/b\u003e   118\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSoaring\u003c\/b\u003e   121\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWalking Underwater\u003c\/b\u003e   123\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eOpen My Heart \u003c\/b\u003e  125\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLike Rice on Chopsticks \u003c\/b\u003e  126\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLike a Sequence of Poems \u003c\/b\u003e  127\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWaiting, Still \u003c\/b\u003e  128\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMorpheus\u003c\/b\u003e   129\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBlue Marble\u003c\/b\u003e   131\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eSomething Like Love \u003c\/b\u003e  132\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAfterword (Afterward): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLike the Navel of My Dream of Nico\u003c\/b\u003e   133\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e   139\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIllustrations\u003c\/i\u003e   141\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e  143\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52656095756568,"sku":"9781531509941","price":14.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/like-a-lake-a-story-of-uneasy-love-and-photography-paperback-softback-9781531509941","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}