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Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight. Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of your years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor, Yonder, off the coast of Maine.
This is a book that will entrance lovers of the sea, yet more deeply is it's abook about family: In prose rich with humor and awe, Coomer revisits the signal moments in his life and finds in his wife and their parents and grandparents his own safest harbor. The work of a writer whose powers grow with each book, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is that uncommon thing--a book full of welcome and joy.
This is a book that will entrance lovers of the sea, yet more deeply is it's abook about family: In prose rich with humor and awe, Coomer revisits the signal moments in his life and finds in his wife and their parents and grandparents his own safest harbor. The work of a writer whose powers grow with each book, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is that uncommon thing--a book full of welcome and joy.
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Joe Coomer's critically acclaimed novls include The Decatur Road, Kentucky Love, A Flatland Fable, and The Loop. His most recent novel, Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, has been optioned for feature film production by Jodie Foster's Egg Productions. He lives with his wife, WEather in Azle, Texas, most of the year but they spend summers with Yonder in Eliot, Maine.
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"Joe Coomer writes beautifully. . .Passages were so relevant to my own life, descriptions so true, that I was immediately quite jealous I had not said them first." --Dan Hays, author of My Old Man and the Sea
"Whether talking to or reading Coomer, one senses that he has a happy life, rich in family and boats. . . Coomer writes of love with the force of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and moves through time with the skill of a Lillian Hellman's Pentimento." --Sailing
"My first throught when I finished reading Joe Coomer's Sailing in a Spoonfull of Water was: What an honor to have read this book. . .It is just about perfect." --Dallas Morning News
"Whether talking to or reading Coomer, one senses that he has a happy life, rich in family and boats. . . Coomer writes of love with the force of James Agee's A Death in the Family, and moves through time with the skill of a Lillian Hellman's Pentimento." --Sailing
"My first throught when I finished reading Joe Coomer's Sailing in a Spoonfull of Water was: What an honor to have read this book. . .It is just about perfect." --Dallas Morning News
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- PublisherPicador USA
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0312186975
- ISBN 13 9780312186975
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