Up Through the Water

by Darcey Steinke

Book Overview

Darcey Steinke's first novel, now back in print, is an unusually assured and lyrical debut. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, it tells of summer people and islanders, mothers and sons,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671706470
• ISBN13: 9780671706470
• Release Date: August 1991
• Publisher: Washington Square Press
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Promising First

In this promising first novel, Steinke creates characters that are introspective and believable, an accomplishment in itself these days. Having vacationed at the outer banks of NC a number of times, I can tell you that this work transports you there. Steinke is efficient and poetic in her use of language, and her plot is loosely framed on the cycles of season and life with the time worn metaphor of water as rejuvenation somehow freshened through her young eye.