The Stone Baby

By Laura Chester

Book Overview

Infidelity and sexual obsession, birth and loss - these are the themes of Laura Chester's frank and powerful novel The Stone Baby.
Julia Chapin is an aspiring painter in her mid-thirties, blessed with three sons and a circle of good women-friends. She is also bored with her marriage, and finds escape, release, and a kind of controlled recklessness through riding horses. Her weekend afternoons at a Western Massachusetts stable bring an encounter with Philip Mercato, a smooth-talking divorced Manhattan stockbroker. Julia is swept away on the wings of money and charm to a world of compulsive sensuality--a world that comes to a sudden, sobering end when she finds that she is pregnant.
Laura Chester precisely charts the evolution of a doomed relationship, from first erotic rush to shattering disillusionment. Along the way, she explores the ways that women support one another in difficult times.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876857756
• ISBN13: 9780876857755
• Release Date: December 1990
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"