| Salt Dancers Contributor(s): Hegi, Ursula (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684844826 ISBN-13: 9780684844824 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1997 Annotation: From the highly acclaimed author of Stones from the River comes a breakthrough novel--a tale of one woman's journey back to her childhood through the layers of memory, fear, longing, and love. "Hegi has a real genius for the material of personal existence, for the world seen up close".--Mary Mackey, San Francisco Chronicle Review. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95013246 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.26" W x 8.06" (0.45 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Salt Dancers is at once a brilliant portrait of an American family, a story of the secrets families guard, and a moving account of one woman's journey back to a past filled with elusive memories and suppressed rage. Why did Julia's mother disappear one day without so much as a word? How did a loving father who taught her such a beautiful thing as the salt dance become such a terrifying and abusive presence? These are the questions which Julia must confront when she returns to Spokane, Washington, after an absence of twenty-three years. Salt Dancers, a superbly written novel, is a poignant and truthful chronicle of self-discovery and the power of resurrection. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hegi, Ursula: - Ursula Hegi is the author of The Worst Thing I've Done, Sacred Time, Hotel of the Saints, The Vision of Emma Blau, Tearing the Silence, Salt Dancers, Stones from the River, Floating in My Mother's Palm, Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories, Intrusions, and Trudi & Pia. She teaches writing at Stonybrook's Southhampton Campus and she is the recipient of more than thirty grants and awards. |