Three Views of Crystal Water
Language: English
Published by HarperCollins Publishing Ltd., Toronto ON Canada, 2005
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Book is in near fine condition and very clean with no writing or markings anywhere. Well bound with no loose or missing pages. Stated **First Edition** and **Signed by Author** on first inside title page with no inscription, just authors name. With dust jacket also in near fine condition.
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- Title
- Three Views of Crystal Water
- Author
- Katherine Govier
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishing Ltd., Toronto ON Canada
- Publication year
- 2005
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0002005891
- ISBN 13
- 9780002005890
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 600 grams
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Canadian Fiction Authors, First Editions, Signed Canadian Books
Listen as author Katherine Govier discusses the history and context behind the writing of Three Views of Crystal Water in this series of exclusive videos.
In this lucid and exotic tale, Katherine Govier delves into the19th-century pearl rush. Greed for the unearthly luster drove sea-farers toscour the ocean floor until the plunder all but destroyed the divers, the oysterbeds and the pearl itself. But on a small island off the coast of Japan, a mantamed the oysters, learning to create pearls at will.
Three Views of Crystal Water is told by the Canadian girlVera, who comes of age amongst the brave women divers of Japan. Nurtured by the amacommunity, she learns to dive 45 feet with a single breath. She also findsher first lover. In the lives of the simple fisherfolk, loyalty is everything.But Vera is an outsider, and when war is declared in Europe, she must go home toVancouver. In the murky streets of Gastown, Vera comes to understand thepearl-lust that has divided the men in her family. But it is years later whenshe discovers what catastrophes war has brought to her friends, and whatdeliverance to her young lover, and herself.
Like the divers it so compellingly portrays, Three Views ofCrystal Water penetrates far below life’s surface. Part fable, parthistory and entirely original, this novel is infused by Govier’s profoundreflections on nature—both earthly and human.
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About the Author
KATHERINE GOVIER’s novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. She is the winner of Canada’s Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career and the Toronto Book Award. Katherine has been a visiting lecturer in both creative writing and magazine journalism at York University, Ryerson Polytechnic University and the University of Leeds (England). Visit her online at www.govier.com.
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