Up Through the Water
Darcey Steinke
(Author)
Description
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.
Product Details
Price
$12.00
$11.16
Publisher
Grove Press
Publish Date
September 07, 2000
Pages
176
Dimensions
5.05 X 8.72 X 0.48 inches | 0.46 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780802137340
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Darcey Steinke is the author of the memoir Easter Everywhere (a New York Times notable book) and the novels Milk, Jesus Saves, Suicide Blonde, and Up Through the Water (also a New York Times notable book). Her books have been translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Boston Review, Vogue, Spin, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Guardian. She lives in New York City.