''Pitch Dark'' is a

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

modernist Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and soc ...

novel by

Renata Adler Renata Adler (born October 19, 1937) is an American author, journalist, and film critic. Adler was a staff writer-reporter for ''The New Yorker'' for over thirty years and the chief film critic for ''The New York Times'' from 1968 to 1969. She h ...

about a newspaper reporter's affair with a married man. Decades after falling

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, ''Pitch Dark'' was reissued in 2013 by

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simultaneously with Adler's first novel, ''

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''; both works enjoyed a renewed wave of critical acclaim.Harvey, Melinda
"Is this a novel?"
''Sydney Review of Books'' 9 May 2014.Bollen, Christopher
"Renata Adler,"
''Interview'' 14 Aug. 2014.

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