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The Watery Part of the World

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By (author): Michael Parker

Michael Parkers vast and involving novel about pirates and slaves, treason and treasures, madness and devotion, takes place on a tiny island battered by storms and cut off from the world. Inspired by two little-known moments in history, it begins in 1813, when Theodosia Burr, en route to New York by ship to meet her father, Aaron Burr, disappears off the coast of North Carolina. It ends a hundred and fifty years later, when the last three inhabitants of a remote islandtwo elderly white women and the black man who takes care of themare forced to leave their beloved spot of land. Parker tells an enduring story about what well sacrifice for love, and what we wont. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 140 x 208mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2012
  • Publisher: Workman Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781616201432

About Michael Parker

The author of seven novels and three collections of stories Michael Parker has been awarded four career-achievement awards: the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters the North Carolina Award for Literature the R. Hunt Parker Award and the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the Washington Post the New York Times Oxford American Runners World Men's Journal and others. He is a three-time winner of the O. Henry Prize for his short fiction and his work has appeared in dozens of magazines and several anthologies. He taught for twenty-seven years in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and since 2009 he has been on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. He lives in Austin Texas.

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