Marine Life

by Linda Svendsen

Book Overview

In this collection of eight linked stories, Svendsen tenderly explores the painful ways we repeat our parents' struggles and mistakes and the difficulty of maintaining love and achieving trust.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374100888
• ISBN13: 9780374100889
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent prose, poignant simplicity

I've read and re-read "Marine Life" so many times I can no longer count. It is an excellent body of work, seamlessly woven together. The prose is outstanding in its' stunning simplicity. Linda Svendsen is an extremely talented writer and I'm looking forward to reading more of her work.

Insightful, rich, human, touching.

Rarely are words so elegantly crafted by modernist writers. Unlike the original reviewer, I do not feel this novel is about desperation or the futility of marriage. It touches me on level more realistic than hopeless. More hopeful than hopeless. And I do not connote desperation with realism. Melancholy, yes. To be sure. Bittersweet, yes. Touching and insightful-with every sentence. I wish this author would write more. I treasure her words & reverently admire her artisanship. Most excellent!