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Coiled in the heart
- Title
- Coiled in the heart / Scott Elliott.
- Author
- Elliott, Scott, 1970-
- Publication
- New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PS3605.L45 C65 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 293 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Seven-year-old Tobia Caldwell, the last in a line of proud, if declining, southern aristocrats, finds a cotton-mouth in a creek on the family's shrinking estate. Soon afterward, he meets Ben Wilson, a boy his age who has moved into one of the first houses going up in a sub-division on what used to be Caldwell land. Imagining he's defending himself and his creek against a bully and an intruder, Tobia leads Ben into an encounter with the snake and later discovers, with Ben's twin sister Merritt, the boy's lifeless body facedown in the creek." "Years later, Tobia re-encounters Merritt, and the bond between them, forged in their first immediate experience of death, is electric. As he falls in love with her, Tobia must come to terms with the guilty secret of his childhood." "Coiled in the Heart wrestles with the integration of the old and the new, while exploring the force of love; the eccentricities of family; the power of guilt; the pros and cons of deconstructive conservation; and the cumbersome, if stablizing weight, of the past."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Bildungsromans.
- Love stories.
- ISBN
- 0399150382 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2002037116
- OCLC
- ocm51258685
- SCSB-4816185
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries