| Product Summary | | Format: Paperback | | ISBN: 9780684841236 | | Publisher: Scribner Book Company | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 30122395 | | Item#: RMFKMD | | Dimensions (in Inches) 8.25H x 5L x 0.5T |
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| | | | "I can still remember the whiteness of my mother as she slips beneath the surface of the river..." (from the first line) The award-winning author of "Dream Boy" and "Winter Birds" weaves the moving tale of a woman determined to figure out if the visions that haunt her are merely dreams--or nightmares she has lived and forced herself to forget. "Each sentence bristles with equal parts rage and grace".--Kelly McQuain, "The Philadelphia Inquirer".
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Jim Grimsley's third novel is a portrait of an aging woman who, in an attempt to understand a recurring dream about her mother, re-imagines her entire life: her dead sister, her impoverished childhood, and the effects of World War II on a small town. As she begins to understand the dream, she also is able to make peace with her past.
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"[A] delicate, perfectly paced narrative of childhood's pains....Moving, vivid, and very real: a work of tremendous, quiet intensity." 11/01/1996New York Times Book Review
"Ellen is an appealing narrator, and [her] recollections of stolen moments of love provide welcome relief from the viciousness all around her. They also provide occasions for some lyrical prose amid Mr. Grimsley's powerful and painfully detailed descriptions of an especially vile sort of poverty..." - Edward Hower 02/02/1997 Rapport
"A haunting quest for the meaning of a recurring dream, this moving, cerebral story of a woman's childhood memories is a mesmerizing account of rural South Carolina circa WWII." vol. 20, no. 1 |
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