By the Shore

Craze, Galaxy.

ISBN 10: 0802136877 / ISBN 13: 9780802136879

Published by Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated, 2000

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 38592865-6

Synopsis:

Published to great international acclaim, Galaxy Craze's best-selling debut, By the Shore, launched a young actress into literary fame. In clear and sparkling prose, her novel evokes a fragile, bittersweet world of youth on the cusp of adulthood and "captures perfectly the hopes and hurts of childhood" (The New York Times Book Review). Twelve-year-old May lives in a less than thriving oceanfront bed-and-breakfast run by her single mother. Her life is filled with the frustrations and promise of youth, complicated by a loving if distracted young mother who strives to care for her two children without forfeiting fun and passion. May puts her faith in the things that elude her - her absent father, the London city life left behind, the acceptance of the popular girls who have boyfriends -- and wonders if her life will ever change. When a kindly writer and his glamorous editor come to lodge in the weeks before Christmas, opportunities are in the air. But then May's playboy father, estranged from the family for years, drops in and threatens to freeze the delicate new possibilities stirring in all their lives.

Synopsis: Living in a dilapidated seaside B&B run by her single mother, twelve-year-old May finds solace from her mundane life in her fantasies, until a kindly writer arrives just before Christmas, but the advent of her estranged, playboy father threatens to undermine her new happiness.

Bibliographic Details

Title: By the Shore
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good