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Salt Water (1999)

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0671035673 (ISBN13: 9780671035679)
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English
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Salt Water (1999) - Plot & Excerpts

AcquaContinuare a vivere cos��ha l'aria di un naufragiosi, questa vita m' ha fregatom' ha insegnato ad aspettareun mondo mai creato...Il mare �� gi�� quiche traboccaed ora che son solal'acqua mi tocca.Acqua nascer��acqua crescer��acqua vieni gi�� dai monti.Acqua laver��e disseter��acqua cheta rompi i ponti.Acqua piover��acqua asciugher��acqua bagna questa terraacqua splender��limpida sar��acqua porta via la guerra.Acquaacqua forte, acqua scuraacqua che scender��non fa paura.Acqua trasparenteacqua e nienteacqua ritorner��acqua corrente.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQbHp...Non so perch��, o meglio lo so il perch��, parla di acqua!, ma da quando ho finito di leggere Acqua di mare nella mia testa riecheggiano le parole di questa bella canzone di Loredana Bert��.Acqua di mare �� un breve romanzo liquido e salato, dove al lento fluire delle cose della vita e alle scoperte adolescenziali dell'amore e del tradimento, dei rapporti intrecciati e sfilacciati tra genitori e figli, amici e amanti, si contrappongono l'amarezza e la delusione, in uno scorrere naturale delle cose che ferisce, appaga, scuote tutti i sensi dell'essere e porta inevitabilmente a riscoprirsi adulti.Bella scoperta Charles Simmons (e questo suo esplicito omaggio che mi porter�� a leggere di corsa Primo Amore di Turgenev!) peccato per�� che questa resti fino a questo momento l'unica sua opera tradotta in italiano*.L'incipit, come scritto nella quasi totalit�� dei commenti qui su aNobii, �� di quelli che ti acchiappano per trascinarti sott'acqua e farti riemergere solo all'ultima pagina:Nell��� estate del 1963 io mi innamorai e mio padre mor�� annegato.Quello che stupisce per��, nonostante l'annuncio sin dalle prime battute di una tragedia incombente anche se inattesa, �� il senso di quiete che fluttua e avvolge i luoghi e i protagonisti della storia, placido e silenzioso come lo scorrere delle acque; acque che si alzeranno tempestose e minacciose, che distruggeranno e trasformeranno, ma che alla fine saranno sempre destinate a placarsi per tornare trasparenti. [edit]*Mi correggo subito: ce n'�� un altro!

This was a quick read. Not a modern style - it's a retelling of Turgenev's First Love, which I haven't read, but will. Somehow I never got into the main character, a young boy falling in love for the first time. The story is told in a very distant manner. As a reader, I got the sense of the people around the boy on the island, but I never cared much about any of them. I don't know if that's a problem for me as a reader or for the writer. All the events seemed to take place in a far away land, which might be appropriate seeing as the boy was going to be a man soon and it was summer on a vacation island. Still, I would have liked to care. The girl he loved was a piece of work too. And the first sentence was such a cheat: "In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father drowned." That's the whole story really...

What do You think about Salt Water (1999)?

This was one of those deceivingly simple reads - only 175 pages with a seemingly simple writing style and plot. However, the sparse prose style belies some deep themes and I found myself going back and re-reading sections to draw out clues and ideas I missed the first time around. It reminds me of Summer of 42 (which I'm going to re-read) as it would be written by Ernest Hemingway. It would make a great movie, with Susan Sarandon as Mrs. Mertz. Donald Rogus, I think you'd appreciate this book. I found myself wishing I could teach it in a high school English class.
—Teresa A. Mauk

I came across this slender novel in a used bookstore and had a vague recollection that it'd been recommended to me, by someone, at some time. Maybe? I wasn't sure. Still, I thought it'd be worth taking a chance on a story that starts with this first line: "In the summer of 1963 I fell in love and my father died." The voice in this novel is lovely, with prose that's direct and almost matter-of-fact, yet somehow also poetic. The story itself is compelling and the characters charmingly flawed. A read well-worth the $5 used-book gamble.
—Lauren Gullion

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