Research Catalog
Lava
- Title
- Lava / a novel by Pamela Ball.
- Author
- Ball, Pamela.
- Publication
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3552.A4554 L38 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 191 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- At the novel's beginning, Kinau says of her husband, gone five years and with another woman, "I could not tell if I was more possessed by Ivan's absence than by the man himself." But then a bizarre incident brings Ivan back, and a new chain of passion and leavetaking inevitably spins itself out.
- Kinau's life is shaped by the stories and feral energy of her mother (a woman of many husbands) and by the always hovering and jealous presence of the gods. Revenge for a boy's accidental death calls for a bounty on sharks and results in a fishing frenzy. Tidal waves have wreaked havoc, and will again. A volcano carries its own portentous message. And finally, there is Hawaii itself, source of loss, of risk, and possibly of salvation.
- ISBN
- 0393040240
- LCCN
- 96031660
- OCLC
- 35085102
- ocm35085102
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries