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Author Wall, William, 1955- author.

Title The Islands : Six Fictions / William Wall.

Publication Info. Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017.
Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania] : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (1 PDF (132 pages))
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Contents Grace's day -- Sisters -- Lovers -- Honeymoon photograph -- The mountain road -- The last island.
Summary In this collection of interconnected stories, the beautiful and ravaging forces of sea and land collide with the forces of human nature, through isolation and family, love and loss, madness and revelation. The stories follow the lives of two sisters and the people who come and go in their lives, much like the tides. Dominated by the tragic loss of a third sister at a young age, their family spirals out of control. We witness three stages of the sisters' lives, each taking place on an island--in southwest Ireland, southern England, and the Bay of Naples. Beautifully and sparsely written, the stories deeply evoke landscape and character, and are suffused with a keen eye for detail and metaphor.
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Subject Sisters -- Fiction.
Sisters.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Islands -- Fiction.
Islands.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Fiction.
Other Form: Print version: 0822945193 9780822945192
ISBN 9780822983132 (electronic book)
0822983133 (electronic book)
9780822945192
0822945193