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The Watery Part of the World

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Availability:In StockContributor:Michael ParkerPublish date:2012-06-05Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781616201432ISBN-10:1616201436UPC:9781616201432Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAAN3FP8X
Michael Parker's 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 island--two elderly white women and the black man who takes care of them--are forced to leave their beloved spot of land. Parker tells an enduring story about what we'll sacrifice for love, and what we won't.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Algonquin BooksISBN-13:9781616201432ISBN-10:1616201436UPC:9781616201432Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, LiterarySize:8.10 x 5.50 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCAAN3FP8X
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Michael Parker is the author of seven novels and three collections of stories. For his work, he 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, Runner's 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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