Steinke's first novel is now back in print. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, the story focuses on Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, the man who wants to clip her wings, and of her son and the summer he will become a man.
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Steinke's first novel is now back in print. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, the story focuses on Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, the man who wants to clip her wings, and of her son and the summer he will become a man.
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Very Good. No Jacket as Issued. BH5-A trade paperback book in very good-condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy with minor overall shelf wear plus a small (less than 0.25") closed tear on the bottom back cover. This is the story of 16 year old Eddie, summering with his mother after her divorce, on North Carolina's Ocracoke Island. It is a story of love and it tells about his summer of sun-washed dreams that are wrapped in the spirit of an island girl. This girl, Emily, must turn back from an independent and care-free life of the sea to chance the uncertainty of a shared life. The author has been a Henry Hoyns Fellow and a Wallace Stegner Fellow. By the author of "Suicide Blonde." 162p.