FICTION / Modern Classics

Salt Water

'A small masterpiece. Simmons has found the perfect, delicate, elegiac voice' New York Times Book Review

'A perfectly-cut gem' Kirkus Reviews

'Simply spellbinding' Booklist

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ISBN: 9781805332763

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Descriere

It's 1963, and fifteen-year-old Michael is spending the summer in the usual place: his family's New England beach house. This isn't a summer like the others, though. This is the summer he falls in love with the girl next door, twenty-year-old Zina. This is the summer he begins to understand the difference between what adults say and what they really mean. This is the summer he finds himself betrayed and learns in his turn to betray. This is the summer his life falls apart.

This devastating coming-of-age story, inspired by Ivan Turgenev's classic novel First Love, is a witty, elegiac masterpiece, which captures all the booze-soaked, salt-brined atmosphere of America's last summer of innocence.

Part of the Pushkin Press Classics series: timeless storytelling by icons of literature, hand-picked from around the globe.

Introduced by Vesna Goldsworthy.

Detalii

Editura: Pushkin Press
An apariție: 2025
Nr. pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 20 x 13 cm

Recenzii

Devastatingly moving... Witty, tender and quite brilliant ― Daily Mail

'A small masterpiece. Simmons has found the perfect, delicate, elegiac voice' ― New York Times Book Review

'A simple and spellbinding novel...grimly enchanting...A powerful, 20th-century tragedy of an American family' ― Wall Street Journal

'A perfectly-cut gem' ― Kirkus Reviews

'A riveting story of youthful innocence consumed by betrayal. Remarkably enthralling and agonizingly revealing....Simmons...maneuvers unfalteringly between each of his characters....The book's opening line leads like a wick into a powder keg of unexpected consequences. Simply spellbinding' ― Booklist

This lesser-known classic of American literature, adapting Ivan Turgenev's First Love to 1963, the year before JFK's assassination, knowingly plays with the trope of coming-of-age as shedding one's innocence and transports us back to that summer where we first experienced the pangs of unrequited love ― Something Curated

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