Salt Water (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780671035679)

In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....So begins this luminous story of a young man's passage through the dark turns of adult passion. A contemporary retelling of Turgenev's classic tale "First Love," Salt Water is set against a summer landscape of water, sand, and sky, and relates in seductive detail the momentous events that changed a family forever.
On an isolated island off the Atlantic coast, fifteen-year-old Michael and his parents begin their customary lazy vacation. When two exquisite flirts shatter the calm, Michael experiences the provocative mysteries and the consequences of various kinds of love -- romantic and sensual, paternal and filial.
William Faulkner Award-winning author Charles Simmons explores the very heart of the human need to be wanted, the intricacies of the father-son bond, and a boy's adolescence in all of its desires, confusion, and heartbreak.

Author: Charles Simmons
ISBN-10: 0671035673
ISBN-13: 9780671035679
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1999
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.46w x 0.45d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 39
New York Times 08/08/1999 pg. 24