Author: Peter Selgin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820339695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The stories in Drowning Lessons engage water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous presence in our lives. "You can touch water," says Peter Selgin, "you can taste it and feel its temperature, you can even hold it in your hands. Still it remains elusive, ill-defined, shaped only by what surrounds or contains it." With empathy and wit Selgin introduces us to characters navigating the choppy waters of human relationships. In "Swimming" an avid swimmer fights the stasis in his marriage by prodding his out-of-shape but contented wife to take up the sport—with near-disastrous results. A pond is the setting of "The Wolf House," which tells of the reunion and dissolution of a group of high school friends brought together for a funeral. "The Sinking Ship Man" chronicles a day in the life of an African American caretaker in charge of the only remaining survivor of the Titanic disaster. In "El Malecón" a toothless old Dominican tries to recapture his lost dignity by "borrowing" a shiny Cadillac convertible and aiming it down the coastal highway toward his childhood village. In "The Sea Cure" two travelers in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula confront death in the form of a mysterious woman living in an abandoned beachfront apartment complex. In all thirteen tales in Drowning Lessons, Selgin exhibits a keen eye for the forces that push people toward—and sometimes beyond—their very human limits, forces as intrinsic, elemental, and elusive as the liquid that makes up two-thirds of their bodies. These stories remind us that of all bodies of water, none is deeper or more dangerous than our own.
Author: Peter Selgin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820332100
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The author introduces readers to the choppy waters of human relationships with empathy and wit in a provocative collection of thirteen tales that incorporates the presence of water as both a vital and a potentially hazardous element in our lives. Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Author: Anna M. Wiebalk
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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A monthly magazine of practical nursing, devoted to the improvement and development of the graduate nurse.
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Category : Nurses
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
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Author: Jane Shemilt
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405915323
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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The chilling, gripping thriller from the author of the stunning Richard and Judy Book Club bestseller Daughter 'It's our son, Sam . . . someone took him. Please help us' Emma hoped that she and her family would return from their year abroad closer, with memories to last a lifetime. Instead, they returned minus one child. A year on, Emma is haunted by their son's disappearance, and feels further than ever from her husband. Is their child still out there somewhere? Will the mystery about what happened that night ever be unravelled? And, if the truth does come to light, will Emma's family be healed - or wrenched even further apart?
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Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Author: Peter Selgin
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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A madcap romp of friendship, movie-making, insanity and salvation. Humorous and heartrending, brilliantly executed.
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Author: Sammy Davis (Jr.)
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Category : African American entertainers
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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