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      Salt Water

      by Charles Simmons
      Published
      Jul 1999
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      176
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      In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned....

      So begins this sweet, ominous novel by Charles Simmons. Set against an idyllic landscape of water, sand, and sky, it recounts in exquisite detail the momentous events of a boy's 16th summer that reveal to him the dark facts of adult passion. On Bone Point, an island off the New England coast, the boy's long, lazy days of boating and swimming are sharpened by a growing awareness of his charismatic father's infidelities. Add to this the presence of a flirtatious middle-aged woman and her beautiful 20-year-old daughter, who have rented the guesthouse, and the tale is set in motion. This tautly constructed novel is both startling and haunting—an irresistible story of memory, desire, and suspense.

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      First Edition Jul 1999 Washington Square Press ISBN13 9780671035679 ISBN10 0671035673
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      Jul 1998 Chronicle ISBN13 9780811821827 ISBN10 081182182X
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