By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
Published to great international acclaim, Galaxy Craze's best-selling debut, By the Shore, launched a young actress into literary fame. In clear and sparkling prose, her novel evokes a fragile, bittersweet world of youth on the cusp of adulthood and captures perfectly the hopes and hurts of childhood (The New York Times Book Review). Twelve-year-old May lives in a less than thriving oceanfront bed-and-breakfast run by her single mother. Her life is filled with the frustrations and promise of youth, complicated by a loving if distracted young mother who strives to care for her two children without forfeiting fun and passion. May puts her faith in the things that elude her - her absent father, the London city life left behind, the acceptance of the popular girls who have boyfriends -- and wonders if her life will ever change. When a kindly writer and his glamorous editor come to lodge in the weeks before Christmas, opportunities are in the air. But then May's playboy father, estranged from the family for years, drops in and threatens to freeze the delicate new possibilities stirring in all their lives.Galaxy Craze is the author of The Last Princess, Tiger, Tiger, and By the Sea, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for Debut Fiction and won the Betty Trask Award in her home country of England. She and her husband, as well as their two children, live in Northampton, Massachusetts.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780871137463 |
| ISBN 10 | 0871137461 |
| Title | By the Shore |
| Author | Galaxy Craze |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press |
| Year published | 1999-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 231 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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