Lake Dreams: A Novel

By Swain Wolfe

Book Overview

After twenty-three years away, Liz, a Boston career woman, returns to visit her eccentric grandmother and to seek solace from the lake that made her believe the world was alive and aware. Among her long-stored treasures, she finds a primitive painting of a woman, which she connects to a legend from her childhood, a romance about lovers who passion sets the lake on fire. Lake Dreams indelibly conjures a landscape of passion, shifting perception, and the visceral longing that shapes our lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031231700X
• ISBN13: 9780312317003
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 1.0" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

wonderful multi-layered storytelling

"The Lake Dreams the Sky" has at its center the story of Rose and Cody, and how they had a love so powerful it could set the lake on fire. This sounds like an impossible myth, but as the story unfolds Rose and Cody become real people with a fascinating story to tell. Like Wolfe's work "The Woman Who Lives in the Earth," this beautiful story has a mystical feel to it. But unlike a pure fable, this novel contains the sense of a real place and characters which make a book truly memorable.