The Lake Dreams the Sky: A Love Story

By Swain Wolfe

Book Overview

A departure from his critically acclaimed fable "The Woman Who Lives in the Earth", Wolfe's second novel offers a sensuous and haunting love story set in the post World War II era, concerning a waitress and a drifter, whose defiance of society's unwritten rules turns them into outcasts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060174129
• ISBN13: 9780060174125
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

wonderful multi-layered storytelling

"The Lake Dreams the Sky" has at its center the story of Rose and Cody, and how they had a love so powerful it could set the lake on fire. This sounds like an impossible myth, but as the story unfolds Rose and Cody become real people with a fascinating story to tell. Like Wolfe's work "The Woman Who Lives in the Earth," this beautiful story has a mystical feel to it. But unlike a pure fable, this novel contains the sense of a real place and characters which make a book truly memorable.