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The Odd Sea
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ISBN10: 0385333382
ISBN13: 9780385333382
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: Jul 13 1999
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.56 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.34
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780385333382
Publisher: Bantam Dell
Published: Jul 13 1999
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.36
Height: 0.56 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.34
Language: English
A haunting first novel that takes a horrifying family calamity and turns it into a form of magic.--The New York Times On a sunny spring morning, sixteen-year-old Ethan Shumway walks down his gravel driveway, turns the bend, and vanishes without a trace. As police search for clues, Ethan's devastated family and friends--from his parents and four siblings to the older woman who was more than a teacher to Ethan--grapple for answers in the teenager's enigmatic life. As this elusive mystery slowly weaves its way into the fabric of the family, Ethan's younger brother, Philip, becomes the last, most stubborn searcher of all: a boy caught between the power and fragility of youth, between the bonds and fissures of family, searching for understanding in the unbearable presence of loss. Praise for The Odd Sea A powerful debut novel.--People
[An] extraordinarily good first novel . . . The story has a dark, dreamlike quality, and author Reiken tells it with no melodrama nor any word out of place.--Time
A luminous parable about growing up, about the necessity of dealing with inevitable loss and questions that cannot be answered . . . Reiken is a smoothly seductive storyteller. He has talent for telling but not telling, for revealing only enough information to whet our appetite.--Newsday
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