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In dark water : a novel

Title
In dark water : a novel / Mermer Blakeslee.
Author
Blakeslee, Mermer.
Publication
New York : Ballantine Books, 1998.

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292 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • In 1958, in a small town in upstate New York, the Buell family is falling apart. The sudden death of David, the only son, forever changes the bonds that connect them to one another and to the world. This is the story of Dorrie Buell, an intensely perceptive girl, trying to find her place in this charged, unpredictable landscape.
  • As her mother sinks into depression, eleven-year-old Dorrie, full of an unusual mix of grit and delicacy, sets out on her own. Armed with the imagined identity of a cowboy drifter, Dorrie finds kinship and refuge in the hilltop farm of the lively, eccentric Tappen family. Yet the deep currents of Dorrie's life keep pulling her back toward her mother, toward the past that binds them, toward common ground.
Subject
  • Grief > Fiction
  • Grief in children > Fiction
  • Families > Fiction
  • Children > Fiction
Genre/Form
Psychological fiction.
ISBN
0345417771 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97045815
OCLC
ocm37903625
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries