Evening Would Find Me

Publishers Weekly

At times graceful, at other times blunt-edged. . . .this novel. . . .has. . . .a seductive setting, attractive characters and a dramatic love affair. (Publishers Weekly, 17 April 2000)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The Greek islands provide a gorgeous setting for this m nage- -trois intrigue, a first novel in which the love story develops obliquely, but is suffused with poetically described scenery. Mourning the death of her mother, Sylvia Harris, a young woman from Ohio, escapes to Athens to find a new life, wipe out painful memories of her clouded family past and flee the social chaos of America in the 1960s and 1970s. The Athenian world she enters, however, is no less tumultuous. Sylvia meets Aristedes Melas, a gifted painter, and Althea, his exquisitely beautiful but schizophrenic wife. Inexplicably drawn to this passionate, complicated couple, Sylvia becomes Ari's lover and Althea's confidante and protector, emotionally intimate with both husband and wife. She discovers that Althea is Ari's muse, the free spirit that he captures in his most renowned works, shown in Athens's National Gallery. Althea's uninhibited energy is at the heart of her beauty; it is what draws Ari, Sylvia and many other admirers, but this childlike intensity also provoked frequent psychotic breaks that edge her toward self-destruction. The Greek drama quickly descends into tragedy, but along the way, the wanderings of this troubled, sensuous threesome take readers to the marble lions of Delos and the harbor of Mykonos, where Sylvia and Ari make love for the first time; to the black-garbed old women of Kalavrita; and to the beach resorts of the Corinthian Gulf, where Althea dives nude into the night sea. At times graceful, at other times blunt-edged, the voice of this novel is somewhat uneven, but has all the right elements are in place to produce an engrossing story--a seductive setting, attractive characters and a dramatic love affair. (May) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|

Internet Book Watch

In Evening Would Find Me, Sylvia is a young American who flees to Greece to begin a new life after the heartfelt death of her mother. In Athens she meets a the painter Ari, and his beautiful, schizophrenic young wife Althea. Sylvia and Ari become lovers, and for Sylvia the affair engenders one revelation after another as she is drawn into a relationship with her lover's wife, whom she alternatively resents, loves, and attempts to protect. The three of them become irrevocably bound together in death and in life. Evening Would Find Me is a very capably written, totally engaging, debut title that fully documents Katie Estill as a major literary talent, and leaves her readers looking eagerly forward to her next novel!
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