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Open water
- Title
- Open water / Maria Flook.
- Author
- Flook, Maria.
- Publication
- New York : Pantheon Books, [1994], ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3556.L583 O6 1994 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 327 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- In Open Water, Maria Flook explores the charged and eerie shoreline of Newport, Rhode Island, where Willis Pratt squanders his days running small cons. But his heart's not in it - he's obsessed with fishing-boat tragedies from his childhood and with Holly, a pretty new neighbor who is charged with arson.
- Their romance is interrupted when Willis is called home to care for his dying stepmother, Rennie, whose biological son wants to place her in a care facility. Willis is determined to guarantee his stepmother the death she desires, but when he arrives, Rennie sees that it is he who needs caring for - Willis quickly gets hooked on her prescription morphine. This is Maria Flook's natural ground, a harsh and sensual terrain where family debt and carnal knowledge intersect.
- Open Water is a confirmation of Maria Flook's remarkable talent. Caught up in the novel's unremitting current, its characters are propelled to a resolution that no one left on shore could have imagined.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Black humor (Literature)
- Domestic fiction.
- ISBN
- 0679431837 :
- LCCN
- 94017114
- OCLC
- ocm30477085
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries