Bibliographic Description
84.09.W003: Hobhouse – Dancing in the Dark
[ornament 2.5 x 5.5 cm] | DANCING | IN THE | DARK | [ornament 9mm x 5.5 cm] | Janet | Hobhouse | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, September 1984
120 leaves, pp. [8] 1-2 3-229 [3]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title-page, π3b imprint, π4a dedication “For Cable, Jean-Loup, Michael | Larry, Annie, Judy, Murdoch | and for Tory”, π4b blank, 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-229 Dancing in the Dark, χ1b blank, χ2a about the author, χ2b blank.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Marc Tauss; interior author photo by John Timbers.
Copyright: ©1983. ISBN: 394-72588-3. Price: $5.95. Dancing in the Dark was first published by Random House, 1983.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Exquisitely written, insightful and poetically concise. – The Village Voice
- Set in the lofts, restaurants, discos, and offices—the fast lane—of Manhattan, this deeply telling novel is an original, graceful study of contemporary friendship, love, and marriage. / The decade-old marriage of Morgan and Gabriella Callagher, sophisticated young New York professionals, is in trouble. One sign of this is the constant presence in their lives of Claudio, an endearing and pleasure-seeking waiter. As Gabriella becomes more and more enchanted by the seemingly carefree life of Claudio and his gay friends, Morgan withdraws into his work and their relationship reaches a crisis that brings the novel to its resonant conclusion.
- Intelligent, unsentimental and refreshingly exact. – The New York Times
- One of the most acute and most serious novels on the theme of modern relationships in the last decade….Hobhouse has leapt into a rare class of novelist-as-social historian that was the métier of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf. – The Philadelphia Inquirer
- Intense, accomplished….In prose at once deft and stately, Hobhouse evokes social setpiece scenes of old-style authoritativeness. – The New Yorker