The House on Salt Hay Road (Thorndike Press Large Print Clean Reads) - Hardcover
Thrilled by the sensational changes that occur in their quiet 1938 seaside town when a fireworks factory explodes, Clay and Nancy witness unexpected tensions in their adoptive family, which are further complicated by a legendary hurricane and the encroaching war. A first novel. (historical fiction).
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Review:
"A breathtaking new American voice." --Jhumpa Lahiri, author of "Unaccustomed Earth
""The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, "The House on Salt Hay Road," come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. . . . She has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable."""" --The New York Times
""Spellbinding."" --Marie Claire
""The landscape is inseparable from the cycle of catastrophe and creation in this vivid novel." "--Los Angeles Times
""Lovely. . . Reading it, you can almost taste the clean, salty air of the South Shore. . . Clevidence's prose is, like the place she writes about, simple and precise." "--The Miami Herald"
About the Author:
""The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, "The House on Salt Hay Road," come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. . . . She has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable."""" --The New York Times
""Spellbinding."" --Marie Claire
""The landscape is inseparable from the cycle of catastrophe and creation in this vivid novel." "--Los Angeles Times
""Lovely. . . Reading it, you can almost taste the clean, salty air of the South Shore. . . Clevidence's prose is, like the place she writes about, simple and precise." "--The Miami Herald"
A breathtaking new American voice. "Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth"
The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, "The House on Salt Hay Road," come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. . . . She has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable. "The New York Times"
Spellbinding. "Marie Claire"
The landscape is inseparable from the cycle of catastrophe and creation in this vivid novel. "Los Angeles Times"
Lovely. . . Reading it, you can almost taste the clean, salty air of the South Shore. . . Clevidence's prose is, like the place she writes about, simple and precise. "The Miami Herald""
"A breathtaking new American voice." --Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth
"The fireworks in Carin Clevidence's first novel, The House on Salt Hay Road, come early, but the novel keeps a steady flame burning until its final scenes. . . . She has a gift for creating images that express the unspeakable." --The New York Times
"Spellbinding." --Marie Claire
"The landscape is inseparable from the cycle of catastrophe and creation in this vivid novel. " --Los Angeles Times
"Lovely. . . Reading it, you can almost taste the clean, salty air of the South Shore. . . Clevidence's prose is, like the place she writes about, simple and precise. " --The Miami Herald
Carin Clevidence has won a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and received a fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her stories have been published in a number of journals. The House on Salt Hay Road is her first novel.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1410433013
- ISBN 13 9781410433015
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages423
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