Screen LibraryOsprey Island /
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel -- are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys...
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Anchor Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: |
2005. ©2004 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Anchor Books edition. |
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| Summary: |
As summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island's one and only hotel -- are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there's Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge's owners, who's looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering-sometimes fleeting-joy. |
| Carrier Form: | 279 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780385720625 0385720629 |
| Index Number: | PS3564 |
| CLC: | I712.45 |
| Call Number: | I712.45/N726-2 |
| Contents: |
Ones they came back for -- Lodge at Osprey Island -- Where the osprey makes its nest -- Raptor is a bird of prey -- To what direction will your chicks take wing? -- How black the night that blinds our human hearts -- As fodder blazes stored above the byre -- In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge -- Mechanics of flight -- Osprey builds its nest of sticks and all the rubbish it can collect -- How the osprey tends its nestlings -- Blessings of hypothermia -- On the interaction of species -- Nature of the structure of a lie -- Broodiness of hens: a brief lesson in avian reproduction -- If the price were treachery -- Long time helpless in the nest -- As they flee you'd think they float on wings -- WWCD? -- Shore recedes, and I too on the shore -- Grief-spurred, swift-swooping -- That flesh of his own flesh -- Night is the surest nurse of troubles souls -- Eyrie of osprey. |