Salt - Softcover

Page, Jeremy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114123 ISBN 13: 9780143114123

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2008

Synopsis

A family saga that explores the relationship between people and the landscape in which they live, Jeremy Page's atmospheric and lyrical debut novel is revelatory in its use of language and is the work of a significant new writer. Salt tells of a German airman who falls from the sky in 1945 and lands in the middle of a salt marsh in England. Goose, a local woman, digs him up and brings him home. After staying for just nine months, he vanishes in a makeshift boat, leaving Goose behind with a newborn daughter, Lil. Taught to read the clouds by her mother, Lil's childhood is curious and strange, but when she becomes the object of two brothers? desire, her life takes a tragic turn. Fifteen years later, it is Lil's son, Pip, who attempts to make sense of his family's intriguing history. Beguiled by the lovely Elsie who lives nearby, Pip grows up in the marsh like generations before him?but will their unfortunate past repeat itself?.

About this title

Review:

"The most unforgettable feature is Page's brilliant description of the changing, yet unchanging, Norfolk landscape."

aThrilling and memorable.a
aRichard Eder, "Los Angeles Times"
aAn extraordinary debut novel.a
a"Star-Telegram" (Fort Worth)
a Gorgeous in the telling and heartbreaking in its message . . . "Salt" is truly a book to savor.a
a"The Hartford Courant"
a Jeremy Page has created an astonishing prose that conveys the unspeakable mystery that is at the center of love and loveas aftermath.a
aRichard Rodriguez, author of "Brown" and "Days of Obligation"

Thrilling and memorable.
Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times"
An extraordinary debut novel.
"Star-Telegram" (Fort Worth)
Gorgeous in the telling and heartbreaking in its message . . . "Salt" is truly a book to savor.
"The Hartford Courant"
Jeremy Page has created an astonishing prose that conveys the unspeakable mystery that is at the center of love and love s aftermath.
Richard Rodriguez, author of "Brown" and "Days of Obligation"

?Thrilling and memorable.?
?Richard Eder, "Los Angeles Times"

?An extraordinary debut novel.?
?"Star-Telegram" (Fort Worth)

? Gorgeous in the telling and heartbreaking in its message . . . "Salt" is truly a book to savor.?
?"The Hartford Courant"

? Jeremy Page has created an astonishing prose that conveys the unspeakable mystery that is at the center of love and love's aftermath.?
?Richard Rodriguez, author of "Brown" and "Days of Obligation"

About the Author:

Jeremy Page is the author of the novel Salt which was a finalist for both the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and the Jeff First Novel Award. He has previously worked as a scriptwriter and script editor of the BBC and Film Four. He lives in London with his wife and children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114123
• ISBN 13: 9780143114123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 322