I’m thrilled to announce that my new novel, VILLA E, will be out August 6 with Norton/Liveright! And grateful indeed for these kind words from wonderful femme-fellow writers:
“Villa E is an irresistible tale of beauty, obsession and hubris. Jane Alison’s portrait of Le Corbusier as a master builder reduced to vandalism by envy is complex and powerful.”
— Nancy Horan, author of Loving Frank
“In this nimble, atmospheric novel, two artists are drawn together and must reckon with their distinct creative hungers, the landscapes that shape and haunt, and the grace and the wound of the passage of time. Villa E is a work of tremendous psychological intricacy and physical beauty. Jane Alison writes sentences that are as hypnotic and lyric as the sea.”
― Laura van den Berg, author of State of Paradise
“In this extraordinary novel, which somehow manages to be both lush and spare, Jane Alison depicts two artists near the ends of their lives, slowly converging on the exquisite villa one has made, and each has loved. Watching Eileen and Le G spiral down into the past and embrace the future, I, too, was transported to the shores of the Mediterranean: light, water, rocks, a gleaming building. Alison writes like no one else.”
― Margot Livesey, author of The Road from Belhaven