Up Through the Water
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Book Overview
Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons, women and men, love and its dangers. It is the story of Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, of the man who wants to clip her wings, of her son and the summer that he will become a man. George Garrett called it "clean-cut, lean-lined, quickly moving, and audacious. . . . Steinke is] compassionate without sentimentality, romantic without false feelings, and clearly and extravagantly gifted." "Beautifully written . . . a seamless and almost instinctive prose that often reads more like poetry than fiction." -- Robert Olmstead, The New York Times Book Review; "Dazzling and charged . . . Darcey Steinke has the sensuous and precise visions of female and male, and of the light and dark at the edge of the sea." -- John Casey.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0802137342
ISBN13:9780802137340
Release Date:October 2000
Publisher:Grove Press
Length:176 Pages
Weight:0.46 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.7"
Customer Reviews
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Promising First
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
In this promising first novel, Steinke creates characters that are introspective and believable, an accomplishment in itself these days. Having vacationed at the outer banks of NC a number of times, I can tell you that this work transports you there. Steinke is efficient and poetic in her use of language, and her plot is loosely framed on the cycles of season and life with the time worn metaphor of water as rejuvenation somehow freshened through her young eye.
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