Ebook {Epub PDF} The Watery Part of the World by Michael Parker
Theo, as she is known, is on her way to New York in to visit her father, whom she is determined to clear of treason charges, when fate intervenes. In Parker's visionary, feverish telling, she washes up on a beach where a hermit called Old Whaley nurses her to health, builds her a shelter and ultimately becomes her partner. Many decades later, in the s, her great-great-great-great grandchildren, . The Watery Part of the World has beautiful language once you adjust to the dialect. This is the story of the last few townspeople of a once-successful isolated community on the outer banks of NC. As this short novel evolves, we learn of the shifting alliances among the four remaining inhabitants/5(95). The Watery Part of the World is an exquisitely written novel of home -- the home in this case is the isolated islands of the Outer Banks of the North Carolina coast. Although there is a plot that moves the story along, I felt most attached to the characters' longing for this watery sandy place.3/5.
The Watery Part of the World. Немає обкладинки. The Watery Part of the World. Parker Michael. Посилання видалено правовласником Популярные книги за неделю. In Parker's visionary, feverish telling, she washes up on a beach where a hermit called Old Whaley nurses her to health, builds her a shelter and ultimately becomes her Parker invokes magic as well as mystery in exploring the ways the past not only haunts the present but in some ways anticipates it. In a lush feat of historical speculation, Michael Parker imagines that Theo survived a pirate attack off the coast of North Carolina and lived out a long, conflicted life on one of the barrier islands. " The Watery Part of the World " — that evocative title comes from " Moby-Dick.
Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired. Michael Parker’s vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in , when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. Theo, as she is known, is on her way to New York in to visit her father, whom she is determined to clear of treason charges, when fate intervenes. In Parker's visionary, feverish telling, she washes up on a beach where a hermit called Old Whaley nurses her to health, builds her a shelter and ultimately becomes her partner. Many decades later, in the s, her great-great-great-great grandchildren, Maggie and Whaley, are looked after by Woodrow Thornton, a black man who lost his wife to.