Osprey Island (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780385720625)

As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel -- are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge's owners, who's looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering-sometimes fleeting-joy.

Author: Thisbe Nissen
ISBN-10: 0385720629
ISBN-13: 9780385720625
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2005
Pages: 279
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.33w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 07/17/2005 pg. 24