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Product Identifiers
PublisherDoubleday Religious Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100385502532
ISBN-139780385502535
eBay Product ID (ePID)1795256
Product Key Features
Book TitleDrowning Ruth
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicFamily Life, General, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorChristina Schwarz
Book SeriesOprah's Book Club Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight22.2 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-029523
Dewey Edition21
Reviews"A strong sense of portent and unusually vivid characters distinguish this mesmerizing first novel about horrifying family secrets and nearly annihilating guilt. Drowning Ruth is a complex and rewarding debut." --Anita Shreve, author of Fortune's Rocks and The Pilot's Wife, "A strong sense of portent and unusually vivid characters distinguish this mesmerizing first novel about horrifying family secrets and nearly annihilating guilt. Drowning Ruth is a complex and rewarding debut." --Anita Shreve, author of Fortune's Rocks and The Pilot's Wife From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Decimal813.6
SynopsisDeftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut. Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night. Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt's secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered. Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz's first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it.
LC Classification NumberPS3553.R7858
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- 26. Jun. 2018
Got here super early. Tyvm
Read this book in HS. That was quite a while ago. I remember it being captivating so I'm reading it again.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 25. Jun. 2018
Drowning Ruth book review
Storyline is confusing - book arrived with rip in the bottom of the spine. I taped it up.
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- 09. Feb. 2021
Drowning Ruth.....a must read!
This book is a very good read. I’ve read it several times, it keeps you in suspense from beginning to end.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 10. Okt. 2018
I could not get into the story.
If the first chapter does not grab me, I seldom go on. My time is too precious.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
