Gabriel's Eye


 

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With compelling insight, GABRIEL'S EYE exposes the architecture of the human heart in all its vulnerability and power.

At twenty-eight, Susan is the kind of teacher every student falls for, in one way or another. She's beautiful, kind, sympathetic--and she teaches art, where her creative approach and candor have endeared her to all. Her personal life is something else, however, as her biological clock ticks on and boyfriend Curt shows no signs of wanting marriage, and even less of wanting children. When seventeen-year-old transfer student Jeff Robbins walks into her art club meeting one night, Susan is transfixed by his good looks, palpable shyness and obvious admiration. A beautifully written work of psychological acuity and deep feeling, GABRIEL'S EYE moves and disturbs as it reveals the ways in which human beings rationalize the most irrational acts.

"In GABRIEL'S EYE, C. W. Smith gazes, with great penetration, at the ways people draw each other--with pencil and paper and with longing--and the ways they're drawn, by mystery, hunger, need. GABRIEL'S EYE delivers all these, as well as a humane intelligence and a pinpoint understanding of loneliness and the self-justifications it inspires. ."
—Tracy Daugherty

Praise for previous work

"The world that Mr. Smith dramatizes is both contemporary and convincing….what's most real about his characters is their common state: not goodness or wickedness, but an air of yearning and bewilderment."
—New York Times Book Review