Give My Heart Ease
Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Published: August 1989
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780932966902
Subjects: General; American First Novelists; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: Sitting on his boat (I always thought of it as his boat, although it wasn't really, he was only the hired man), the wind and the sun very strong and he waves slapping her sides.
Description: Set in England, Boston and the Caribbean, this Pinteresque, artfully crafted story describes a relationship between Justine, a young dancer, and Roy, her philosophy teacher at Oxford. A story of love and sex, pain and intellect, and ultimate redemption. The story is narrated by Justine, who chronicles her own awakening.