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LOST LAKE by MARK SLOUKA
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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- Drama
- Special Attributes
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
- ISBN
- 9780375402159
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375402152
ISBN-13
9780375402159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
166574
Product Key Features
Book Title
Lost Lake
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
1998
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.6 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-049471
Reviews
"Relentlessly observant, miraculously expressive, these are stories that see through the mirrored surface into a hidden yet strangely intimate world." The New York Times Book Review "Mr. Slouka is an important writer, and [Lost Lake] is, quite simply, wonderful." Dallas Morning News "The range of emotion and experience inLost Lakeis panoramic, the sense of mystery as deep as the lake itself." The Commercial Appeal "So rich and affecting that it incorporates all kinds of influences while remaining singular and quite unforgettable." Outside From the Trade Paperback edition., "Relentlessly observant, miraculously expressive, these are stories that see through the mirrored surface into a hidden yet strangely intimate world." The New York Times Book Review "Mr. Slouka is an important writer, and [Lost Lake] is, quite simply, wonderful." Dallas Morning News "The range of emotion and experience in Lost Lake is panoramic, the sense of mystery as deep as the lake itself." The Commercial Appeal "So rich and affecting that it incorporates all kinds of influences while remaining singular and quite unforgettable." Outside From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
In twelve beautifully imagined stories linked by character and setting, Mark Slouka paints an unforgettable portrait of three generations of men and women under the spell of a landscape with a powerful history, and of a body of water that has a grip on their souls and destinies, defying their understanding even as it elevates and transforms their lives. Set in a tiny Czech community on the shores of New York's Lost Lake, the stories in Mark Slouka's first collection are elegiac and expansive, illuminated by a quiet, complicated glory in the natural world and by the mysterious motions of the human spirit within it. In "Genesis," the collection's creation myth, an inspired young war veteran gazes into a cow pasture and sees the lake for the first time, and in it the chance it holds for a better life; in the exquisitely written fishing story "The Shape of Water," a young boy's recollection of a momentous catch occasions a later reflection on the elusiveness of memory and the power of invented truths; in "The Exile," a young woman struggles unsuccessfully against an adulterous passion and in the dead of night rows out across the lake to meet her lover on the opposite shore. In all, Lost Lake emerges as a place of epic significance and enduring simplicity, the source and the settling point of all stories--less a body of water than a notion, a dwelling place, a spiritual home.
LC Classification Number
PS3569.L697L67 1998
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