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Salt Water Reprint edition
Charles Simmons
Salt Water Reprint edition
Charles Simmons
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.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | July 1, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780671035679 |
Publishers | Gallery Books |
Pages | 176 |
Dimensions | 139 × 219 × 11 mm · 240 g |
Language | English |
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