Reprisal
by Mitchell Smith
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Joanna, a professor, wife & mother, is also a survivor. She challenges her own limits by exploring caves, & creating the poetry for which she is acclaimed. But now the refuge from which she draws her strength & inspiration has just turned deadly.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1999
- People/Characters
- Joanna Reed; Frank Reed; Charis Langenberg; Rebecca Reed
- Important places
- Asconsett Island, Massachusetts, USA
- Epigraph
- A wound of the heart need not be made by steel;
Lack and loss make more than ample institution.
Nor must its distance run be metered by a wheel,
To leaf the thorn of pain past any restitution.
A search for what me... (show all)dicines that sore may seal,
Is sure to come at last to healing retribution.
JOANNA REED, Cut Flowers
Sansome, Day & Co.
Boston, 1994 - Dedication
- To Linda,
beautiful and brave - First words
- She knew the dock watchman's rounds. (Prologue)
Joanna dreamed the ocean had brought Frank home, delivered him in a rush of breaking waves up the walk, so seawater thumped and foamed against the cottage door ... ran under and soaked the rag rug there. (Chapter One) - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Then, after their long time resting together, she and her child would be finally found in some far chamber—light brought to them at last with the voices of weary men, so they lay suddenly spangled, revealed in the glory of their vault of jeweled and shining stone.
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- Dutch, English
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