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The House On Oyster Creek:a Novel
[Paperback - 2010]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Berkley | ISBN: 9780451229922 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .329 | Dimensions: 5.5 x .8 x 8.2 inches

Sensitive but practical, Charlotte Tradescome has come to accept the reticence of her older, work-obsessed husband Henry. Still, she hopes to create a life for their three-year-old daughter. So when Henry inherits a home on Cape Cod, she, Henry, and little Fiona move from their Manhattan apartment to this seaside community. Charlotte sells off part of Tradescome Point, inadvertently fueling the conflict between newcomers and locals. Many townspeople easily dismiss Charlotte as a "washashore." A rare exception is Darryl Stead, an oyster farmer with modest dreams and an open heart, with whom Charlotte feels the connection she's been missing. Ultimately he transforms the way she sees herself, the town, and the people she loves...

HEIDI JON SCHMIDT is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and author of five books,THE HARBORMASTER'S DAUGHTER,THE HOUSE ON OYSTER CREEK, THE BRIDE OF CATASTROPHE, DARLING?andTHE ROSE THIEVESHer essays and stories have been published inThe New York Times,The Atlantic, Grand Street, Yankee, The Boston Globeetc., and heard onNational Public Radio. Her stories have been included inThe O'Henry Awards, Best American Nonrequired Reading, Twenty under Thirtyand others.She is married to the writer RD Skillings, and has lived in Provincetown Massachusetts for 30 years.The Washington Post Book World has said "It is impossible to disentangle the comic from the tragic in Schmidt's writing. She is incapable of cliche."Goodreads is telling me my influence list is too long (and I was being very minimalist!) so I will put it here instead!George Eliot,John Cheever,Laura Ingalls Wilder,Philip Roth,Oscar Wilde,Veronica Geng,Alice Munro, Katharine Mansfield,John Steinbeck

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