Sweet Water
- ISBN-10
- 0595168108
- ISBN-13
- 9780595168101
- Series
- Sweet Water
- Category
- Biographers
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-12
- Publisher
- Dissertation.com
- Author
- Kathryn Kramer
Description
A literary detective story in which the expatriate writer Henry James's clandestine visits to a water spa in Vermont are discovered one summer by the hotel's current owners, a biographer and hose trainer. Their debate whether to reveal their discovery to others begins to unravel the secrets of their own marriage, kept since they met as teenagers at a cathedral school where Greta mysteriously suffered from the stigmata. A spacious novel about the feel of America its hydrophobia and fear of immersion, an ambitious and richly imagined tale of romantic intrigue by a gifted stylist. (Publishers Weekly)
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