- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books Inc (Jan 17 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1897151195
- ISBN-13: 978-1897151198
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #291,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Bride Marsh and Wanda Stuckless have never been away from home. After seventeen years, their entire world consists of a small, close-knit island off the coast of Newfoundland. But the two girls have bigger and better ambitions than to be stuck on the island their birth consigned them to. The summer after high school, they make plans to leave everything behind and move to Toronto, but in the process, they realize that running away from home is not as easy as they originally thought. Once the boys in town start to show an interest in them, the girls find their plans for escape have hit a slight snag as they start to drift further apart and discover that the island might have more to offer than just a dead-end life. The novel is full of love and pathos for the tragic lives Bride and Wanda will be leaving behind. From Wanda’s blind father and catatonic mother, to Bride’s sorrowful stepfather/uncle and her sexually and emotionally insular mother, the island comes to life with their vibrant lives. With an angst reminiscent of A Complicated Kindness, No Beautiful Shore is awash in the anxiety of growing up and the irresistible urge to leave home.
About the Author
Beverley Stone grew up in outport Newfoundland before moving to Toronto to attend Osgoode Hall Law School. She lives in Toronto, but Random Island, Newfoundland will always be home. She is a proud alumnus of the Wired Writing Studio at the Banff Centre, Alberta. No Beautiful Shore is Beverley's first novel.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
No Beautiful Shore,
By Dr. Evan Wm. Cameron (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: No Beautiful Shore (Paperback)
One of the most thoughtful, carefully written, unpretentious and memorable novels that I have read (and I don't mean 'of first novels', though this is the author's first). Remarkable for a novel set in Newfoundland, her ear for dialogue is as exact as the story itself. The author ought to have continued the tale at least far enough to permit the reader to rest, knowing without equivocation what happens to the principal character, for the character is sufficiently fascinating to warrant it. Even so, this is a a novel to be read without hesitation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Written from the heart and deep insight...,
By Whitelightone "jj" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Beautiful Shore (Paperback)
Thank you, Ms. Stone, for breaking through many of the stereotyping out there about Newfoundlanders, as well as a great story.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Depressing,
By VioletCrush - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: No Beautiful Shore (Paperback)
Rating: 2.5 out of 52 Teenagers. One depressing Island and their hope to leave home one day. That's the whole premise of the book. Bride and Wanda are best friends who after finishing school want to move out of the Island to Toronto. Wanda sells drugs to save money and Bride decides to ask her grandmother for it. Although the premise was good and what attracted me to the book, I found it too depressing. Every character in the novel was depressed and sad. Although I understand that the author had created an atmosphere which was required for the story, there is only so much sadness one can take. I found Bride and Wanda likable, even though they were not really very loving towards their family. The only character I found myself rooting for was Bride's mother Janice. Bride's father dies before she is born and Janice marries Rupert and basically falls into a sad and lonely existence. She eventually finds love but with a woman which is against her religious beliefs. I expected the book to end on a happy note, either with the girls releasing that there is nothing like home or leaving home and finding a place where they can actually make something of themselves. But the end was equally sad. The author has a very unique and honest style of writing. But sometimes the narrator abruptly changes midway which was very confusing in the beginning. But as I read on I got a hang of it. There are many bad words and a few explicit sex scenes. So if you are okay with that go ahead and read it. |
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