The Season of Open Water - A Novel

Zusatztext “An absolutely wonderful story. Dawn Clifton Tripp has created a place that is as memorable to me as Charles Frazier’s Smoky Mountains or Norman Maclean’s Montana! and filled it with characters as lifelike as any I’ve encountered in contemporary American fiction.” – Howard Frank Mosher ! author of Disappearances and Where the Rivers Flow North “Tripp writes vivid! precise! intense prose that opens a window on a particular place and time! a family and love story! with complex views that promise to delight and move us. In The Season of Open Water she delivers on that promise! and keeps surprising us with more.” – Robert Morgan! author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies “The story of a woman caught between the brother who completes her and the man she loves! The Season of Open Water is a stunning! taut! richly textured novel. Tripp possesses a genius for the telling detail! and her characters are so intimately drawn that we can almost see their breath rise up off the page.” – Alison Smith ! author of Name All the Animals Praise for Moon Tide “A shimmering work! an audacious debut! a gem.” – Edna O’Brien “A dream of a book–hypnotic! poetic! transporting the reader through time and space . . . Moon Tide is the thinking woman’s beach book.” – The Charlotte Observer “Moon Tide is a haunting meditation–reminiscent of Louise Erdrich–on family! place! love! mourning! and memory. . . . It feels like a dream.” – Haven Kimmel ! author of A Girl Named Zippy Informationen zum Autor Dawn Tripp ’s fourth novel  Georgia  was a national bestseller, finalist for the New England Book Award, and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is the author of three previous novels:  Game of Secrets, Moon Tide,  and  The Season of Open Water , which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her short story  Mojave  was published in Gay Magazine . Her poetry and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Conjunctions, and NPR, among others. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her family. She is currently at work on her fifth novel. Klappentext From the critically acclaimed author of Moon Tide comes a mesmerizing novel of love and violence, family and betrayal. The Season of Open Water is the passionate, searing story of a young woman coming of age in a New England seacoast town that is swept up in the dangerous trade of rum-running. It is October 1927. Bridge Weld is nineteen, headstrong and beautiful, working in her grandfather Noel's boatbuilding shop. When Noel is approached by a local bootlegger to refit a boat for smuggling, he feels in his gut that he should not accept the work, yet he takes the job for the money it offers and for the chance it gives him to build a future for his beloved granddaughter, Bridge, and her brother, Luce. What Noel doesn't count on is that Luce will be lured into the rum work himself and will try to pull Bridge into it with him. But Bridge has embarked on a different course. Caught up in a passion for Henry, a veteran of World War I, Bridge is propelled beyond the confines of her known world, and ultimately she must choose between the man who loves her and the brother to whom she has been loyal all her life. As Bridge strikes out on her own, Luce's fierce attachment spirals out of control. Exquisitely written, haunting in its rendering of place, The Season of Open Water is a superb novel about a family and the lawlessness of the heart, a love story that explores the often inescapable connections between violence and desire. Zusammenfassung From the critically acclaimed author of Moon Tide comes a mesmerizing novel of love and violence! family and betra...

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An absolutely wonderful story. Dawn Clifton Tripp has created a place that is as memorable to me as Charles Frazier s Smoky Mountains or Norman Maclean s Montana, and filled it with characters as lifelike as any I ve encountered in contemporary American fiction.
Howard Frank Mosher, author of Disappearances and Where the Rivers Flow North

Tripp writes vivid, precise, intense prose that opens a window on a particular place and time, a family and love story, with complex views that promise to delight and move us. In The Season of Open Water she delivers on that promise, and keeps surprising us with more.
Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies

The story of a woman caught between the brother who completes her and the man she loves, The Season of Open Water is a stunning, taut, richly textured novel. Tripp possesses a genius for the telling detail, and her characters are so intimately drawn that we can almost see their breath rise up off the page.
Alison Smith, author of Name All the Animals

Praise for Moon Tide

A shimmering work, an audacious debut, a gem.
Edna O Brien

A dream of a book hypnotic, poetic, transporting the reader through time and space . . . Moon Tide is the thinking woman s beach book.
The Charlotte Observer

Moon Tide is a haunting meditation reminiscent of Louise Erdrich on family, place, love, mourning, and memory. . . . It feels like a dream.
Haven Kimmel, author of A Girl Named Zippy

Product details

• Authors: Dawn Tripp, Dawn Clifton Tripp
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.06.2005
• EAN: 9781400061877
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-6187-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 242 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature