Amagansett
by Mark Mills
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Author: Mark MillsEdition: Paperback
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2005-05-03
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 400
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group
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Book Review: A COMPELLING STORY, WONDERFULLY TOLD!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Amagansett" not only captivates, but satisfies deeply - the sort of book every avid reader searches for. This author has mastered the art of timing - dropping information at just the right intervals to keep the reader turning pages.
It's the summer of 1947, and two Amagansett fishermen pull a woman's lifeless body from the ocean. What then unravels is the story of a handful of players in this small, Long Island town. Who was this woman? Was she murdered? If so, by whom?
The prose is simply beautiful. Here's an excerpt where Mills describes how Sag Harbor has slipped into decline: "Like some dowager princess fallen on hard times, the evening gown may have been a little frayed around the edges, but the jewels were real. No other South Fork town could boast a Main Street to match, with its imposing brick edifices, its mansions, and its stores with their generous plate-glass windows." The book is filled with such metaphors, and I found myself basking in them like a wine connoisseur tasting a high flavored Bordeaux.
A compelling story, wonderfully told!
Summary of Amagansett
A major debut novel that tells a mesmerizing story of love, death, and redemption in a small Long Island fishing community in 1947.Amagansett is a novel as sweeping and haunting as the landscape of sky and sea it evokes. Beautifully and powerfully told, it announces the arrival of a gifted writer who skillfully weaves together a delicate love story, a brutal murder, an unforgettable evocation of a place and time, and characters shaped by the epic forces of nature, class, war, and memory.
Conrad Labarde is a first-generation Basque fisherman who casts his nets in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Living alone among the high dunes on the east end of Long Island, he is kept company only by the ghosts of war. He is a working-class man in a region sharply divided between those who farm and fish this isolated finger of land year-round, and the wealthy, who claim it every summer for seaside escape.
But in postwar America, the landscape is changing quickly. And lives, too, will change dramatically when Conrad's nets pull in the body of a beautiful young woman, seaweed twined in her hair. Deputy Chief of Police Tom Hollis must traverse the shoals of class and community in order to determine if a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom. From the privileged family whose dead daughter was hiding a torturous secret, to the determined cop who seeks the truth, to the fisherman who is always one step ahead of him-they, and everyone else in Amagansett-will be touched by what the waves cast up that day.
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