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Title: |
The Town That Drowned |
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| By (author): |
Riel Nason |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864926405 : 9780864926401 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Weight: |
.358 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - September 2011 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
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No Sales Rights
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| Living with an eccentric little brother can be tough. Falling through the ice at a skating party and nearly drowning are grounds for embarrassment. But having a vision and narrating it to assembled onlookers? That solidifies your status as an outcast. What Ruby Carson saw during that fateful hallucination was her entire hometown â houses and people â floating underwater. Then an orange-tipped surveyor stake appears in a field, another in the cemetery. Soon everyone discovers that a massive dam is being constructed and their homes will eventually be swallowed by rising water. Suspicions mount, tempers flare, long-simmering secrets are revealed. As the town prepares for its demise, 14-year-old Ruby watches it all from a front-row seat. Set in the 1960s, The Town That Drowned deftly evokes the awkwardness of childhood, the thrill of first love, and the importance of having a place, any place, to call home. |
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