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Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Type
Paperback
ISBN
9780738711010
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Product Identifiers

Publisher
North Star Editions
ISBN-10
0738711012
ISBN-13
9780738711010
eBay Product ID (ePID)
62408827

Product Key Features

Book Title
Shape of Water
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Social Themes / Dating & Relationships, Social Themes / Depression & Mental Illness, General
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Juvenile Fiction
Author
Anne Spollen
Format
Perfect

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
LCCN
2007-046356
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
Seventh Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
[Fic]
Synopsis
"Spollen interweaves elemental, evocative images of what is formless and boundless-water, air, grief, death-with what is solid and limited-earth, objects, human love and forgiveness. This enchanting novel starts quietly, draws the reader in and weaves a seductive spell that holds until the last page." --Kirkus(starred review) "I had come to know silence well during those months after my mother died. When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, but with weight, exactly like water." Magda's mother always said the world was full of strange and beautiful secrets only the two of them could see. But now she's gone and Magda's world is flooded with anxiety and loneliness-and maybe, madness. As an imaginary family of bickering fish begins to torment her, Magda's only outlet is starting beautiful but destructive fires in the marshes near her house. The Shape of Wateris a darkly lyrical and surprising tapestry of the mundane and the surreal, in which Magda begins to untangle her family's secrets and search for a stable place in the world., ""I discovered windows one afternoon and after that, nothing was ever the same."" According to 15-year-old Magdalenas mother, the world is strange, beautiful, and watery-full of secrets and discoveries known only to mother and daughter. But when her mother dies suspiciously, it becomes an arid world of anxiety, sexual confusion, and desperate loneliness, where an imaginary family of bickering fish torment her. Magdas only outlet is the beautiful but destructive fires she starts in the marshes near her house. As her father and aunt try to pull her into a mundane world of school, schedules, and stepmothers, the voices of the fish in her head tempt her toward insanity. Magda must plot a course between her mothers fatal madness and her fathers soul-destroying normalcy. "The Shape of Water" is a darkly lyrical and surprising tapestry of mundane and imaginative worlds. Magda untangles family secrets, struggles to cope with profound loss, and finally discovers a stable place in the world-without compromising herself., In this darkly lyrical and surprising tapestry of mundane and imaginative worlds, 15-year-old Magdalena untangles family secrets, struggles to cope with profound loss, and finally discovers a stable place in the world--without compromising herself., "Spollen interweaves elemental, evocative images of what is formless and boundless--water, air, grief, death--with what is solid and limited-earth, objects, human love and forgiveness. This enchanting novel starts quietly, draws the reader in and weaves a seductive spell that holds until the last page." -- Kirkus (starred review) "I had come to know silence well during those months after my mother died. When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without shape or form, but with weight, exactly like water." Magda's mother always said the world was full of strange and beautiful secrets only the two of them could see. But now she's gone and Magda's world is flooded with anxiety and loneliness--and maybe, madness. As an imaginary family of bickering fish begins to torment her, Magda's only outlet is starting beautiful but destructive fires in the marshes near her house. The Shape of Water is a darkly lyrical and surprising tapestry of the mundane and the surreal, in which Magda begins to untangle her family's secrets and search for a stable place in the world.
LC Classification Number
PZ7.S76365Sha 2008

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