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The Edge of Running Water: A Novel [Hardcover]

William M[illigan]. Sloane (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: New York, Toronto: Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated,; First Edition edition (1939)
  • ASIN: B002010FPW
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Like a literate 1950's horror movie..., April 28, 2008
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Ms. Standfast (Arlington, VA USA) - See all my reviews
I had a high school literature teacher, prone in her cups to readings of Conrad Aiken and T. S. Eliot, who was the only other person I ever knew who had read this book. Oddly, it's not what anyone would call "literary" in the sense of vocabulary, quotation or allusion, but it seems to appeal to reflective people.

On the surface, it's a mystery. Did she fall or was she pushed? (Really.) On another level, it's a novel about obsession -- the Orpheus-and-Eurydice, Gilgamesh-and-Enkidu kind of obsession that develops when someone is loved deeply and dies young. And then it's a supernatural novel, in which the events and possibilities are creepy beyond anything the circumstances depicted could account for. Sloane has a nice touch with the numinous image, and with creating the swoopy feeling of witnessing a breach out of the ordinary world. This is a little gem.
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