The Sweetness of Water

The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
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Trade Paperback
h234 x 153mm - 416pg
15 Jun 2021 UK
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9781472274380
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What price do we pay for freedom? ' Better than any debut novel has a right to be' Richard RussoFor readers of WASHINGTON BLACK, THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD and DAYS WITHOUT END. In the dying days of the American Civil War, newly freed brothers Landry and Prentiss find themselves cast into the world without a penny to their names. Forced to hide out in the woods near their former Georgia plantation, they' re soon discovered by the land' s owner, George Walker, a man still reeling from the loss of his son in the war. When the brothers begin to live and work on George' s farm, the tentative bonds of trust and union begin to blossom between the strangers. But this sanctuary survives on a knife' s edge, and it isn' t long before the inhabitants of the nearby town of Old Ox react with fury at the alliances being formed only a few miles away. Conjuring a world fraught by tragedy and violence yet threaded through with hope, THE SWEETNESS OF WATER is a debut novel unique in its power to move and enthral.
What a gifted, assured writer Nathan Harris is. He does what all novelists are supposed to do-give birth to vivid characters, people worth caring about, and then get out of their way. The result is better than any debut novel has a right to be. With The Sweetness of Water, Harris has, in a sense, unwritten Gone With the Wind, detonating its phony romanticism, its unearned sympathies, its wretched racism -- Richard Russo To open Nathan Harris' s first novel is to enter a trance. I can' t think of any other book out there quite like it. The richness of his language and the exquisite details of the lives he creates produce a kind of waking dream, equally lyrical and threatening -- Luis Alberto Urrea
Nathan Harris is a Michener fellow at the University of Texas. He was awarded the Kidd prize, as judged by Anthony Doerr, and was also a finalist for the Tennessee Williams fiction prize. THE SWEETNESS OF WATER is his debut novel. He lives in Austin, Texas.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781472274380
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tinder Press
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 153mm
Pages: 416

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