A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year
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"[Compass Rose] is marvelous, returning us to South County, Pierce and Sawtooth Point. . . . This splendid novel lives and breathes with all its psychic powers and complex human spirit." --Providence Journal
"Beautiful, elegiac. . . . Casey's portrayal of . . . South County is carefully observed, lovingly rendered and delicately parsed--a full-throated celebration of the natural world." --The New York Times Book Review "Casey can write the thoughts, feelings, emotions, hopes and dreams of women, be they wives, mothers, daughters or lovers, better than anyone." --The Seattle Times "Each character in Mr. Casey's large cast is gratifyingly complex, and the novel hums with energy." --The Wall Street JournalJohn 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.
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. It's been more than two decades since Spartina won the National Book Award and was acclaimed by critics as being "possibly the best American novel . . . since The Old Man and the Sea" (The New York Times Book Review), but in this extraordinary follow-up novel barely any time has passed in the magical landscape of salt ponds and marshes in John Casey's fictional Rhode Island estuary.Elsie Buttrick, prodigal daughter of the smart set who are gradually taking over the coastline of Sawtooth Point, has just given birth to Rose, a child conceived during a passionate affair with Dick Pierce-a fisherman and the love of Elsie's life, who also happens to live practically next door with his wife, May, and their children. A beautiful but guarded woman who feels more at ease wading through the marshes than lounging on the porches of the fashionable resort her sister and brother-in-law own, Elsie was never one to do as she was told. She is wary of the discomfort her presence poses among some members of her gossipy, insular community, yet it is Rose, the unofficially adopted daughter and little sister of half the town, who magnetically steers everyone in her orbit toward unexpected-and unbreakable-relationships. As we see Rose grow from a child to a plucky adolescent with a flair for theatrics both onstage and at home during verbal boxing matches with her mother, to a poised and prepossessing teenager, she becomes the unwitting emotional tether between Elsie and everyone else. "Face it, Mom," Rose says, "we live in a tiny ecosystem." And indeed, like the rugged, untouched marshes that surround these characters, theirs is an ecosystem that has come by its beauty honestly, through rhythms and moods that have shaped and reshaped their lives.With an uncanny ability to plunge confidently and unwaveringly into the thoughts and desires of women-mothers, daughters, wives, lovers-John Casey astonishes us again with the power of a family saga. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780375709135
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