Pitch Dark by Renata Adler

This book is a premium first copy, similar to the original but not the original.

One of the most acclaimed novels of the late 20th century is back. Pitch Dark is the story of the end of a love affair–a story that, in Renata Adler’s brilliant telling, becomes a richly diffracted, illuminating, investigation of an exceptional woman. After a nine-year affair with Jake, a married man, Kate Ennis decides to escape. She takes off, looking for something beautiful and quiet by the sea, but finds herself in a pitch dark and driving rain on a lonely Irish road. It is only months later that she learns that she may have committed a crime, but by then she is home, once more negotiating with Jake for time, for attention, and for love.