Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Aquamarine by Carol Anshaw

Imagine how different your life might be if you had taken another path at a crucial turning point in the past. Aquamarine explores the intricate ways early choices reverbarate through a life. Shown in triptych is Jesse Austin, on the verge of turning forty in 1990, inhabiting three equally possible lives. Jesse's choices have variously brought her to marry, divorce or remain single, to love men or women, to live close to her Missouri hometown or deliberatley far away. But Jesse is still haunted by the moment when she lost the gold medal for the hundred-meter freestyle at the 1968 Olympics to a fatally seductive Australian swimmer named Marty Finch. Aquamarine magically weaves together three scenarios of options embraced or discarded, seamlessly connected by the emotional ties that bind Jesse to the people in her past. Infused with warmth, wit and wry affection, Aquamarine plays exhilaratingly original variations on the themes of lost love and the unlived lives running parallel to the ones we have chosen.

Anshaw creates a very real, very moving world of wonderful characters and beautifully written moments * San Francisco Chronicle *
A remarkable book.. Anshaw writes with biting humour and a touching reverence for the power of loss * Boston Globe *

Carol Anshaw is the award-winning author ( the Carl Sandburg award and the Society of Midland Authors Award) of three previous novels, Aquamarine, Seven Moves and Lucky in the Corner. She lives in Chicago and teaches creative writing at Vermont College.

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ISBN 13	9781853816253
ISBN 10	1853816256
Title	Aquamarine
Author	Carol Anshaw
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1993-06-10
Number of pages	208
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