Salt Paperback - 2008
by Jeremy Page
A family saga that explores the relationship between peopleand the landscape in which they live, Jeremy Page's atmosphericand lyrical debut novel is revelatory in its use of language and is thework of a significant new writer. Salt tells of a German airman whofalls from the sky in 1945 and lands in the middle of a salt marsh inEngland. Goose, a local woman, digs him up and brings him home.After staying for just nine months, he vanishes in a makeshift boat,leaving Goose behind with a newborn daughter, Lil. Taught to readthe clouds by her mother, Lil's childhood is curious and strange, butwhen she becomes the object of two brothers' desire, her life takesa tragic turn. Fifteen years later, it is Lil's son, Pip, who attempts tomake sense of his family's intriguing history. Beguiled by the lovelyElsie who lives nearby, Pip grows up in the marsh like generationsbefore him but will their unfortunate past repeat itself?.
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- Title Salt
- Author Jeremy Page
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2008-08-26
- ISBN 9780143114123 / 0143114123
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.76 x 5.02 x 0.62 in (19.71 x 12.75 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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