{"product_id":"the-salt-point-paperback","title":"The Salt Point - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePaul Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Coming Storm\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Salt Point\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea compelling novel of four people \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand their intermingled and unwinding desires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnatole loves Leigh (Our Boy of the Mall), a great adolescent beauty. Leigh is sleeping with Lydia, Anatole's best friend, who's fighting turning thirty. Chris, once the stunning object of Anatole's desire, is an unscrupulous friend to all and known to none. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a Poughkeepsie mall--the Main Street to a new generation--\u003ci\u003eThe Salt Point\u003c\/i\u003e follows Anatole, Leigh, Chris, and Lydia as they achieve their oddly triumphant lives redolent with loss and hope, humor and sadness, union and alienation. As promises are diminished and futures are abandoned, all four hurtle toward that place in which the nature of things is transmuted: a place not unlike the salt point, that unfixed location in the Hudson River where fresh water turns salty.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul Russell \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three previous novels--\u003ci\u003eThe Salt Point\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoys of Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSea of Tranquillity\u003c\/i\u003e--as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Gay 100\u003c\/i\u003e, a work of non-fiction. He is Professor of English at Vassar College and lives in upstate New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 09, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47227287765241,"sku":"9780312267698","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ck1wNjFLc2JDUHBRakVOQXRZdENuZz09.webp?v=1768279291","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-salt-point-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}