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The last true poets of the sea
- Title
- The last true poets of the sea / Julia Drake.
- Author
- Drake, Julia
- Publication
- New York, New York : Hyperion, 2019.
- ©2019
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2272 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 391 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- The Larkin family isn't just lucky-they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brother, Sam, were always told. When the Lyric sank off the coast of Maine, their great-great-great-grandmother didn't drown like the rest of the passengers. No, Fidelia swam to shore, fell in love, and founded Lyric, Maine, the town Violet and Sam returned to every summer. But wrecks seem to run in the family: Tall, funny, musical Violet can't stop partying with the wrong people. And, one beautiful summer day, brilliant, sensitive Sam attempts to take his own life. Shipped back to Lyric while Sam is in treatment, Violet is haunted by her family's missing piece-the lost shipwreck she and Sam dreamed of discovering when they were children. Desperate to make amends, Violet embarks on a wildly ambitious mission: locate the Lyric, lain hidden in a watery grave for over a century. She finds a fellow wreck hunter in Liv Stone, an amateur local historian whose sparkling intelligence and guarded gray eyes make Violet ache in an exhilarating new way. Whether or not they find the Lyric, the journey Violet takes-and the bridges she builds along the way-may be the start of something like survival. Epic, funny, and sweepingly romantic, The Last True Poets of the Sea is an astonishing debut about the strength it takes to swim up from a wreck. -- Provided by publisher.
- Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
- Subjects
- Families
- Families > Juvenile fiction
- Novels
- Mental illness > Juvenile fiction
- Romance fiction
- Young adult works
- Lesbian fiction
- Maine > Juvenile fiction
- Lesbian teenagers > Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile works
- Fiction
- Shipwrecks > Juvenile fiction
- Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction
- Teenagers > Suicidal behavior > Juvenile fiction
- Genre/Form
- Romance fiction.
- Lesbian fiction.
- Young adult works.
- Novels.
- Juvenile works.
- Fiction.
- Awards (note)
- Rainbow Book List, 2020. https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1331
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2272
- ISBN
- 9781368048088
- 1368048080
- LCCN
- 2018058556
- OCLC
- 1080556214
- Author
- Drake, Julia, author.
- Title
- The last true poets of the sea / Julia Drake.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Hyperion, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Awards
- Rainbow Book List, 2020. https://glbtrt.ala.org/rainbowbooks/archives/1331
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2272