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The silver boat

Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed awa...

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Main Author: Rice, Luanne.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2011.
Subjects:
Sisters > Fiction.
Irish American families > Fiction.
Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) > Fiction.
Domestic fiction > Massachusetts.
Summary: Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back to their ancestral homeland.
Physical Description: 289 p. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9780670022502 (hc : alk. paper)
0670022500 (hc : alk. paper)
Author Notes: Novelist Luanne Rice was born in Old Lyme, Connecticut on September 25, 1955. She has written over twenty books and her stories, such as Home Fires and Cloud Nine, depict average people in emotionally complex situations. Many of her novels have been adapted into TV movies including Crazy in Love (1992) which starred Holly Hunter, Bill Pullman and Gena Rowlands, and Blue Moon (1999) which starred Sharon Lawrence, Kim Hunter and Richard Kiley. She currently splits her time between New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.

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