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Counterpointe
by
Ann Warner (Goodreads Author)
Art, science, love, and ambition collide as a dancer on the verge of achieving her dreams is devastated by an injury.
After the abrupt ending of her career, Clare Eliason rushes into a marriage with Rob Chapin, but the marriage soon falters, propelling Clare and Rob on journeys of self-discovery. Rob, a scientist, joins an expedition to Peru. Clare's journey is no less prof...more
After the abrupt ending of her career, Clare Eliason rushes into a marriage with Rob Chapin, but the marriage soon falters, propelling Clare and Rob on journeys of self-discovery. Rob, a scientist, joins an expedition to Peru. Clare's journey is no less prof...more
Paperback, 255 pages
Published
July 1st 2012
by Silky Stone Press
(first published June 30th 2012)
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Clare Eliason moves to Boston partly to further her ballet career, but also to escape a painful breakup with her ex-dancing partner. During an after-performance reception, she’s introduced to Rob Chapin, a science professor. Finding humor and many common points of interest, they begin to date and a beautiful relationship evolves between them. In a wonderful saga full of realistic ups and downs Counterpointe shadows them as their lives...more
Clare Eliason moves to Boston partly to further her ballet career, but also to escape a painful breakup with her ex-dancing partner. During an after-performance reception, she’s introduced to Rob Chapin, a science professor. Finding humor and many common points of interest, they begin to date and a beautiful relationship evolves between them. In a wonderful saga full of realistic ups and downs Counterpointe shadows them as their lives...more
I won this one on good reads giveaways. I liked it. a lot. Prima Ballerina Clare meets professor Rob when she moves to Boston to get over a broken heart and make a fresh start. One day, tragedy strikes her and she is no longer able to dance. She marries Rob to feel safe and doesn't know what else to do.... dancing was her only career. She slips into a deep depression and almost loses Rob. He goes to Peru for 6 months to give himself some distance from her. while he is gone, he almost dies, and h...more
Got this free on amazon and became enmeshed in this story of an artist and scientist-a seemingly unlikely pair who find their way to...and back to...each other despite their different approaches to the world. Themes touch on people's career paths, personal journeys of discovery (when all seems lost), and how veils of personal (mis)perceptions lift when you open your heart to new realities. Well written and paced, I knew and cared about these characters and their relationship at this book's end.
This was a melancholic book, but so romantic, so beautifully written. Clare lost the career she loved and suffered other losses and spiraled down into a severe depression. Rob loved her with all his heart but when he couldn't help her, he had to leave. They were cruel to each other, but the love was strong underneath it all. It was a lovely story about loss and redemption.
If you have ever loved ballet and ballet dancers, this book is amazing and intense and beautifully written. Painful in some ways as it brings home reasons to give up and reasons to keep trying. But it was a good read, start to finish.
Good read about finding yourself after a major loss and learning how to live again.
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After years in academia, teaching and directing clinical chemistry laboratories, I took a turn down another road and began writing fiction. My first novel, Dreams for Stones was published by Samhain on Christmas Day 2007. The sequel, Persistence of Dreams followed in 2009.
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