Salt Water - A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
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| Verlag | Washington Square Press |
| Auflage | 1999 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 22 cm |
| Gewicht | 240 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| ISBN-10 | 0671035673 |
| EAN | 9780671035679 |
| Bestell-Nr | 67103567EA |
In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned ....So begins this luminous story of a young man's passage through the dark turns of adult passion. A contemporary retelling of Turgenev's classic tale "First Love," Salt Water is set against a summer landscape of water, sand, and sky, and relates in seductive detail the momentous events that changed a family forever.
On an isolated island off the Atlantic coast, fifteen-year-old Michael and his parents begin their customary lazy vacation. When two exquisite flirts shatter the calm, Michael experiences the provocative mysteries and the consequences of various kinds of love -- romantic and sensual, paternal and filial.
William Faulkner Award-winning author Charles Simmons explores the very heart of the human need to be wanted, the intricacies of the father-son bond, and a boy's adolescence in all of its desires, confusion, and heartbreak.
Rezension:
The New York Times Book Review A small masterpiece. Simmons has found the perfect, delicate, elegiac voice.
