Islanders Contributor(s): Alcalay, Ammiel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0872865061 ISBN-13: 9780872865068 Publisher: City Lights Books OUR PRICE: $10.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2009050500 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.2" W x 7" (0.30 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Enigmatic and multi-layered, Islanders is about finding one's own hard-won truth. A young man's indelible memories of the struggle to find intimacy--formative experiences like the ebb and flow of friendships, love, and ordinary workaday life--are viewed through a lens of nostalgic longing and hard-eyed realism as he attempts to come to terms with the past. Set during the cataclysm of the last years of the war in Vietnam, in a landscape that shifts between the bleak fishing towns of the Atlantic coast to the ruined cities of the Northeast, Islanders explores the classic theme of identity's intricate relationship to place. |