{"product_id":"the-narrow-land-by-christine-dwyer-hickey","title":"'The Narrow Land' by Christine Dwyer Hickey","description":"\u003ch4\u003eCape Cod, 1950. A lonely young German boy, recently arrived in America after the war, is taken in for the summer by a well-connected couple living near the artists Edward and Jo Hopper.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the boy moves between households, beaches and adult conversations he only partly understands, he becomes an uneasy witness to marriage, art, exile and postwar American life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChristine Dwyer Hickey writes with precision about loneliness and observation: the child watching adults, the painter watching light, the wife watching the life around her narrow into someone else’s work. \u003cem\u003eThe Narrow Land\u003c\/em\u003e is especially strong on atmosphere, turning Hopper’s world of rooms, windows, beaches and silences into fiction without reducing the artists to biographical furniture. A restrained, elegant novel about art, damage and the lives caught at the edge of the frame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGreat condition, paperback copy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45725728309331,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-22T194727.014.png?v=1782121657","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-narrow-land-by-christine-dwyer-hickey","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}