Sailing In A Spoonful of Water

by Joe Coomer

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

797.1

Collection

Publication

Picador (1998), Edition: First Paperback., 256 pages

Description

Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel "Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight. "Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of your years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor, Yonder, off the coast of Maine. This is a book that will entrance lovers of the sea, yet more deeply is it's abook about family: In prose rich with humor and awe, Coomer revisits the signal moments in his life and finds in his wife and their parents and grandparents his own safest harbor. The work of a writer whose powers grow with each book," Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is that uncommon thing--a book full of welcome and joy.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

256 p.; 8.75 inches

ISBN

0312186975 / 9780312186975

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