The Resource How a woman becomes a lake, Marjorie Celona
How a woman becomes a lake, Marjorie Celona
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The item How a woman becomes a lake, Marjorie Celona represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
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- Summary
- It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she's found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo's sons see Vera? What are they hiding from the police? And why are they so scared of their own father? In the months ahead, Vera's absence sets off a chain of reverberating events in Whale Bay. Her apathetic husband succumbs to grief and disappears. Leo heads south and remarries, attempting to escape the history of violence that hangs over his family. And the cop investigating the case falls for Leo's ex-wife but finds himself slipping further away from the truth. Told from shifting perspectives, How a Woman Becomes a Lake is about the dark corners in a small community as individuals struggle to keep their lives afloat. It's about childhood, familial bonds, new beginnings, and costly mistakes. A literary novel with the pull and pace of a thriller, told in taut illuminating prose, it asks, what do you do when the people who are supposed to love you the most fail?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Note
- First published in Canada by Penguin Canada
- Isbn
- 9780349011356
- Label
- How a woman becomes a lake
- Title
- How a woman becomes a lake
- Statement of responsibility
- Marjorie Celona
- Subject
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- trueGrief in men
- trueLakes
- Life-change events -- Fiction
- trueMarried people
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- trueMissing women
- Parent and child -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Small cities -- Fiction
- trueDetectives
- trueDysfunctional families
- Families -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- trueFishing villages
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- It's New Year's Day and the residents of a small fishing town are ready to start their lives anew. Leo takes his two young sons out to the lake to write resolutions on paper boats. That same frigid morning, Vera sets out for a walk with her dog along the lake, leaving her husband in bed with a hangover. But she never returns. She places a call to the police saying she's found a boy in the woods, but the call is cut short by a muffled cry. Did one of Leo's sons see Vera? What are they hiding from the police? And why are they so scared of their own father? In the months ahead, Vera's absence sets off a chain of reverberating events in Whale Bay. Her apathetic husband succumbs to grief and disappears. Leo heads south and remarries, attempting to escape the history of violence that hangs over his family. And the cop investigating the case falls for Leo's ex-wife but finds himself slipping further away from the truth. Told from shifting perspectives, How a Woman Becomes a Lake is about the dark corners in a small community as individuals struggle to keep their lives afloat. It's about childhood, familial bonds, new beginnings, and costly mistakes. A literary novel with the pull and pace of a thriller, told in taut illuminating prose, it asks, what do you do when the people who are supposed to love you the most fail?
- Award
- Loan Stars Favourites, 2020.
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- 10843618
- Cataloging source
- SALS
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Celona, Marjorie
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Parent and child
- Family secrets
- Small cities
- Life-change events
- Families
- Secrecy
- Interpersonal relations
- Missing persons
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- How a woman becomes a lake, Marjorie Celona
- Note
- First published in Canada by Penguin Canada
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066879685
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349011356
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1140138213
- Label
- How a woman becomes a lake, Marjorie Celona
- Note
- First published in Canada by Penguin Canada
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000066879685
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 261 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9780349011356
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1140138213
Subject
- trueGrief in men
- trueLakes
- Life-change events -- Fiction
- trueMarried people
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- trueMissing women
- Parent and child -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Small cities -- Fiction
- trueDetectives
- trueDysfunctional families
- Families -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueFathers and sons
- trueFishing villages
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
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