While a large part of the novel is devoted to the joys and struggles of Grace Holland's newfound independence, a key section is her moving, albeit brief romance with a musician. (bookpage.com)
Later chapters follow a similar path, with memorable accounts of the author visiting Agnes Martin in New Mexico — the painter's «odd, gnomic» conversation is said to be both «assertive and tentative at once» — and of Crimp's brief romance with Ellsworth Kelly. (apollo-magazine.com)
The whole fight died out quickly and is of no matter now except that, like Snaith's brief romance with the Jungfrau and his quest of Block Island, it helps to explain something of the man and his loves. (si.com)