Saltsea
By: David Helwig.
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Windsor, ON
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781897231104
Subjects: Hotels -- Fiction.; Prince Edward Island -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: Birdsong, wind: here by the ocean every noise was surrounded by silence that reached all the way to the stars.
Description: A lovely, meditative novel, a story about memory, and about how what once was continues to affect what is and what will be. It is the story of a place, of the family that used to own it, and the people who have been its caretakers. Saltsea, a hotel on the shores of Prince Edward Island, where people come for a brief time, their lives intersecting in intimate and unforeseen ways. The characters of Saltsea are finely drawn, with humour, love and compassion. Sadness and even tragedy are a constant here, but Helwig handles it all humanely, without sentimentality, and with the control of a writer at the height of his powers. Saltsea, befitting a novel so concerned with memory, is not something you will soon forget.
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