{"product_id":"pitch-dark-with-an-introduction-by-muriel-spark-9781474615884","title":"Pitch Dark: With an introduction by Muriel Spark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA strange, thrilling novel about desperate love, paranoia, and heartbreak by one of America's most singular writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a book about love.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKate Ennis is poised at a critical moment in an affair with a married man. The complications and contradictions pursue her from a house in rural Connecticut to a brownstone apartment in New York City, to a small island off the coast of Washington, to a pitch black night in backcountry Ireland.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComposed in the style of Renata Adler's celebrated novel \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e and displaying her keen journalist's eye and mastery of language, both simple and sublime,\u003ci\u003e Pitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold and astonishing work of art.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA W\u0026amp;N Essential w\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eith an introduction by Muriel Spark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781474615884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 23 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Orion Publishing Co\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 19.6(H)x12.4(L)x1.6(W)170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): 170\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eRENATA ADLER was born in Milan and raised in Connecticut. She received a B.A. from Bryn Mawr, an M.A. from Harvard, a D.d E.S from the Sorbonne, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an LL.D. (honorary) from Georgetown. Adler became a staff writer at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1963 and, except for a year as the chief film critic of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, remained at the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e for the next four decades. Her books include A YEAR IN THE DARK (1969); TOWARD A RADICAL MIDDLE (1970); RECKLESS DISREGARD: WESTMORELAND V. CBS ET AL., SHARON V. TIME (1986); CANARIES IN THE MINESHAFT (2001); GONE: THE LAST DAYS OF THE NEW YORKER (1999); IRREPARABLE HARM: THE U.S. SUPREME COURT AND THE DECISION THAT MADE GEORGE W. BUSH PRESIDENT (2004); and the novels SPEEDBOAT (1976; winner of the Ernest Hemingway Award for Best First Novel) and PITCH DARK (1983).\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003eRenata Adler's new novel, like her previous work of fiction \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e, is a genre unto itself, a discontinuous first-person narrative. Adler's mind is analytical and her style ebullient -- Muriel Spark\u003cbr\u003eIf you simply allow Adler's fragments to settle in their own patterns, flashing light where they will, you'll find \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark \u003c\/i\u003ea bright kaleidoscope of a book -- Anne Tyler\u003cbr\u003eImaginative, intelligent and original -- Elizabeth Hardwick\u003cbr\u003eRenata Adler is brilliant, and her character Kate Ennis is lovable in her complete disinterest for making herself lovable. It's perfect and prescient, a tremendously influential book -- Chris Kraus * Slate *\u003cbr\u003eTwo things hold \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e together and give it speed and magic. The first is Adler's gift for language and observation - she seems capable of writing about anything with intelligence and wit; and the second is her willingness to write candidly, even rawly, about emotions -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, like \u003ci\u003eSpeedboat\u003c\/i\u003e, exudes a certain openness, a vulnerability, even. Adler dispenses with the defined paths of traditional narrative, along with expectations of order and sequence, and instead pieces together a collage of consciousness * New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eVirtuosic . . . \u003ci\u003ePitch Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvel of metafiction * Sydney Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eThese novels are records of a penetrating intelligence . . . These are not works of realism - they have a dreamlike quality - but they contain as much reality as a Balzac novel does. It's just that their reality is incantatory, sparse, periodically blazing, and not a little self-consciously neurotic . . . It's great to have these novels back in print, at long last -- Meghan O’Rourke * New Yorker *","brand":"Renata Adler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48979749273817,"sku":"9781474615884","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781474615884.jpg?v=1784470207","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/pitch-dark-with-an-introduction-by-muriel-spark-9781474615884","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}