Up Through Water

By Darcey Steinke

Book Overview

Steinke's first novel is now back in print. Set on an island resort town off North Carolina, the story focuses on Emily, a woman free as the waves she swims in every day, the man who wants to clip her wings, and of her son and the summer he will become a man.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385246870
• ISBN13: 9780385246873
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Promising First

In this promising first novel, Steinke creates characters that are introspective and believable, an accomplishment in itself these days. Having vacationed at the outer banks of NC a number of times, I can tell you that this work transports you there. Steinke is efficient and poetic in her use of language, and her plot is loosely framed on the cycles of season and life with the time worn metaphor of water as rejuvenation somehow freshened through her young eye.