The Salt Point: A Novel
by:
Paul Russell (author)
From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, which explores the lives of four people-Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia-and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in a Poughkeepsie mall, the Main Street to a...
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From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, which explores the lives of four people-Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia-and their intermingled and unwinding desires. Set in a Poughkeepsie mall, the Main Street to a new generation, the novel follows these characters as they achieve their oddly triumphant lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. As promises are diminished and futures are abandoned, all four are hurtled toward that place in which everything is transmuted-the salt point.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312267698 (031226769X)
Publish date: September 9th 2000
Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
paul russell's first novel (i think) is basically a chamber piece with four instruments. his strong ability with fluid, rich characterization was clearly intact from the start of his career. unfortunately the novel suffered from monotony and triteness, traits that still occasionally plague one of ga...
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