Compass Rose (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Casey, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375709134 ISBN 13: 9780375709135

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2011

Synopsis

A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year

John Casey follows up his National Book Award-winning novel Spartina with an extraordinary return to the marshes of Rhode Island's South County.

Elsie Buttrick, the prodigal daughter of Sawtooth Point, has just given birth to Rose, the child conceived during her passionate affair with Dick Pierce. At first she is wary of the discomfort her presence poses to Dick's wife, May, and other inhabitants of their gossipy, insular community. But as Rose slowly becomes the unofficially adopted daughter and little sister of half the town, she magnetically steers everyone in her orbit toward unexpected--and unbreakable--relationships.

About this title

About the Author

John Casey was born in 1939 in Worcester, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and the University of Iowa. His novel Spartina won the National Book Award in 1989. He lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he is a professor of English literature at the University of Virginia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375709134
• ISBN 13: 9780375709135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400