Author: Scott Gallagher
Publisher: Scott Gallagher
ISBN: 145238357X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Dancing Upon the Shore is an unflinchingly intimate and painfully beautiful chronicle of the mystery of love. While spending a gorgeous summer day on the beach in Southern California, Sean, an introspective, charming, yet lonely thirty-year old writer meets, by happenstance, Geneva, a mercurial Bostonian woman of startling beauty and unpracticed sensuality. From this random encounter, an impassioned love affair ensues. Narrated through Sean "s eyes, the reader becomes immersed in the beguiling and unsettling byways of their turbulent relationship: from infatuation, to romance, to love, to marriage, to the birth of their son, to harrowing jealousy, anger, recrimination; and, finally, to Geneva "s mental breakdown, a Scrack-up which leads to a bitter divorce.Woven throughout the course of this expansive novel is the tenderness, contempt, passion, and pathos that circumscribe the affairs of the human heart. Written in nimble and lyrical prose, and with an unyielding and oftentimes humorous frankness, Dancing Upon the Shore is a deeply moving portrait of a tragic romance.