The Seduction of Water
by:
Carol Goodman (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786251841 (0786251840)
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Edition language: English
Book: The Seduction of Water Author: Carol Goodman Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Fairy Tales Summary: Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the "buts" are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mot...
I started out loving this book, but by about 2/3 of the way through I fell out of love and nearly into boredom. My very shallow analysis: it kept feeling like there was more to the story that would be revealed, but when the time came ------ not so much.The narrator, Iris Greenfeder, is a part-time ...
A novel about searching for the truth and family secrets. Iris Greenfeder is a struggling writer who, after selling an essay about her mother (a semi-famous fantasy writer who died under mysterious circumstances and never finished the third book of her trilogy), is commissioned to write a memoir ab...
"The Seduction of Water" is a novel I came across a while after I read Carol Goodman's "The Lake of Dead Languages", the latter one of my favorite novels to date for its potent imagery, school-based stories of past and present, and careful character interactions molded into a tight mystery/suspense....
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