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Title: Infrared

Author: Nancy Huston

Narrator: Jennifer Vuletic

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-13

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Genres: Fiction, Literary

Publisher's Summary:

After a troubled childhood and two failed marriages, Rena Greenblatt has achieved success as a photographer. She specializes in infrared techniques that expose her pictures otherwise hidden landscapes and capture the raw essence of deeply private moments in the lives of her subjects.

Away from her lover, and stuck in Florence, Italy, with her infuriating stepmother and her aging, unwell father, Rena confronts not only the masterpieces of the Renaissance but the banal inconveniences of a family holiday. At the same time, she finds herself travelling into dark and passionate memories that will lead to disturbing revelations.

Infrared is both an explicitly bold story of how sexuality is influenced by childhood, family, and culture, and a portrait of a woman coming to terms with the end of her fathers life. With exceptional flair and intelligence, Huston fearlessly investigates the links between family intimacies and our collective lives, between destruction and creation.

In the spirit of her bestselling novel Fault Lines, Infrared is a story about how childhood, family, and our culture all have a direct impact on our sexuality.

Critic Reviews:

"Huston shows her mastery of complicated structure, wide cultural knowledge, and brilliant, assured portraiture." (The Globe and Mail)

"Compelling... A finely written examination of sexual politics and the importance of emotional triage." (Quill & Quire, Canada)

"Huston's prose is magnetic. This is daring writing which pushes the novel of ideas into a new world." (The Independent)

Members Reviews:

impatient with INFRARED

The narrator in this work is very smugly well informed and educated, at the same time as she is childishly impatient of her elderly father and his wife (she's supposed to be in her forties). Many sad and awful things have happened to her, but seem to have nothing to do with the outcome of the novel. The end comes very abruptly.

Infrared

no one very poor reading did not care for writting style a very boring read would not recommend to any one

Good modern literature

Another Nancy Huston novel, well researched and worth reading. Set in Montreal and Italy , a complex and detailed description of family dynamics and other relationships. Realistic description of French politics of the era. Knowledgable, intricate description of the art of photography.

Troubled Rena Is Interesting; Imaginary Friend Is Tiresome

"Infrared" is not a book I would normally pick out to read, and I would not have chosen it based on the description if it had not been reviewed so well both by periodicals and consumers. The reviews did a better job of explaining the book than the book's description which makes it seem like a dark family vacation variation of "Eat, Pray, Love" except with flashbacks. I think it was really the "emotional triage" comment by "Quill and Quire" that sold me on giving it a whirl. As it is, the book seems to have as hard of a time understanding itself as Rena does of understanding herself.

While reading "Infrared," I actually really liked Rena almost all of the time. Her blunt discussions of sexuality were interesting in that there was nothing enticing in them because one realizes after the first or second one that her moments of passion almost take the form of an additional character as they form a weird band-aid for her soul.