Beach : Stories by the Sand and Sea (Paperback)

~ Lena Lencek (Editor), (Editor) "the edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place..." (more)
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"A perfect book to tuck into your beach bag and read with your toes wiggling in the sand, the roar of the waves as background music." -- San Gabriel Valley News

"A wonderful collection . . . An unusual and unusually entertaining book to bring to the beach this summer. Curl up in your favorite chaise and enjoy." -- Chicago Tribune

"Beach offers a story for everyone and inspires some serious beach reading." -- Portland Oregonian

"Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker have captured the age-old joy of the beach . . . These 22 pieces are perfect for browsing." -- New Orleans Times-Picayune

[If] you want to lose yourself in sensuality, adventure, and the awesomeness of the natural world, you can't do better than Beach" -- Santa Cruz County Sentinel

Product Description

Blue-green surf, pillowy white sand, and a warm salty breeze-when it comes to restoring body and soul, no place in the world can compete with the beach. And few other places in the world inspire writers to explore, again and again, literature's perennial themes: the rituals of family, the pleasures of friendship, the promise of romance and the trials of love, the immutable cycles of the natural world, the inevitability of loss and death, the unending quest for redemption. Now Beach: Stories by the Sand and Sea brings together for the first time the very best of this literary tradition. Comprising short stories, novel excerpts, and narrative non-fiction, Beach will delight every beachgoer looking for the perfect book to tote along to the seashore and every landlocked beach lover dreaming of a visit to the sand and sea. Editors Lena Lencek and Gideon Bosker have selected twenty-two unforgettable pieces by a stellar line-up of writers, including short stories by such masters of the genre as Kay Boyle, John Cheever, Anton Chekhov, Doris Lessing, Vladimir Nabokov, and John Updike; narrative nonfiction by Whitney Balliett, Rachel Carson, and Russ Rymer; and excerpts from Albert Camus's The Stranger, Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother, and John Steinbeck's Cannery Row. The selections in Beach also take us around the world, from the Mediterranean of David Malouf's "A Change of Scene" and J.G. Ballard's "The Largest Theme Park in the World," the South Seas of Diane Johnson's "Great Barrier Reef," a seaside Japanese village in Takeshi Kaiko's "The Duel," and Cape Cod in Ethan Mordden's "I Read My Nephew Stories." "We hope that Beach will inspire in you," write Lencek and Bosker in their introduction, "as it does in us, the depth of feeling and wonder that lies at the very core of the beach experience."

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (May 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 156924636X
• ISBN-13: 978-1569246368
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #910,500 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You have the wrong title, June 2, 2000

By	C. M. Pritchard (NYC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The actual title of the book is "Beach: Stories by the Sand and Sea." Not "Beach: Stories of Time and Tide."