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The Surface of Motion

Rebecca Goodman

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Calling on other art forms, present and past—the music of 20th-century composer Olivier Messiaen, the paintings of Ambrogio Bergognone—Rebecca Goodman’s first novel, The Surface of Motion, explores art and time, time and memory, and the relationship of art to the lives of those who create and live it.

A woman, who works as a restorer of Renaissance art in Milan, reflects simultaneously on restoring not fully experienced and forgotten moments of her own life, attempting to understand the people she knew, how they shaped her, and how they belong to and act out the eternal stories of our culture’s mythos. Goodman’s language, compacted, refined, invites readers to experience their own worlds anew.

Living in Southern California, Goodman teaches literature and writing, and is co-director of the 2008 biannual literary festival, &NOW.