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Salt Water
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Josep Pla
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9781939810731, 9781939810724
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Archipelago
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Peter Bush, winner of the Ramon Llull Prize for Literary Translation, brings to English this most prolific and influential of Catalan writers. Dripping with a panache that can turn in a comic instant to the most conciliatory humility, Josep Pla’s foray into the land and sea most familiar to him will plunge readers head-first into its mysterious (and often tasty!) depths. Here are adventures and shipwrecks, raspy storytellers and the fishy meals that sustain them. After describing the process of beating an octopus with branches to soften up its flesh, Pla writes, “These are dishes that must be seen as a last resort.” Pla inflects the mundane with the hidden rhythms of power sculpting culture, so that a hot supper is never just food–it embodies economic precarity and environmental erosion along with its own peculiar flavor. A lifetime of reporting on current events gave Pla the necessary skills to describe the world in all its gritty, funny, invigorating detail.

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Salt Water
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Charles Simmons
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9781452123561, 9780811821827
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Chronicle Books LLC
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In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned….

So begins this sweet, ominous novel by Charles Simmons. Set against an idyllic landscape of water, sand, and sky, it recounts in exquisite detail the momentous events of a boy’s 16th summer that reveal to him the dark facts of adult passion. On Bone Point, an island off the New England coast, the boy’s long, lazy days of boating and swimming are sharpened by a growing awareness of his charismatic father’s infidelities. Add to this the presence of a flirtatious middle-aged woman and her beautiful 20-year-old daughter, who have rented the guesthouse, and the tale is set in motion. This tautly constructed novel is both startling and haunting—an irresistible story of memory, desire, and suspense.

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