Author: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802159281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers.
Ocean State
Author: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802159281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 0802159281
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O’Nan’s latest is a crushing, beautifully written, and profoundly compelling novel about sisters, mothers, and daughters, and the terrible things love makes us do. In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable. Watching over it all is the retrospective testimony of Angel’s younger sister Marie, who reflects on that doomed autumn of 2009 with all the wisdom of hindsight. Angel and Birdy love the same teenage boy, frantically and single mindedly, and are compelled by the intensity of their feelings to extremes neither could have anticipated. O’Nan’s expert hand paints a fully realized portrait of these women, but also weaves a compelling and heartbreaking story of working-class life in Ashaway, Rhode Island. Propulsive, moving, and deeply rendered, Ocean State is a masterful novel by one of our greatest storytellers.
So You Think You're Smart
Author: Pat Battaglia
Publisher: International Puzzle Feature
ISBN: 9780970825315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
So You Think You're Smart is an eclectic collection of word games, riddles and logic puzzles to tantalize, tease and boggle the brains of readers of all ages and educational levels. The brain teasers are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so only common sense and a bit of resourcefulness are needed to solve them. The book is in its 17th printing and has appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Publisher: International Puzzle Feature
ISBN: 9780970825315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
So You Think You're Smart is an eclectic collection of word games, riddles and logic puzzles to tantalize, tease and boggle the brains of readers of all ages and educational levels. The brain teasers are about ordinary words and things that everybody knows about so only common sense and a bit of resourcefulness are needed to solve them. The book is in its 17th printing and has appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Report of the Industrial Commission on the Relations and Conditions of Capital and Labor Employed in Manufactures and General Business ...
Author: United States. Industrial Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestics
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domestics
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
FCC Record
Author: United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Telecommunication
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
1987 NASA authorization
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Transportation, Aviation, and Materials
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Ocean Mammal Protection
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oceans and Atmosphere
Publisher:
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Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 1650
Book Description
Credit for Early Reduction Act
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Author: United States. President
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
"Containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the President", 1956-1992.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1985
Author: Reagan, Ronald
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623769442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
Publisher: Best Books on
ISBN: 1623769442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
To Amend the Shipping Act, 1916
Author: United States. Congress. House. Merchant Marine and Fisheries
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description