Sea of Tranquility - Paperback

Name: Sea of Tranquility - Paperback
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SKU: 9780312303723
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by Paul Russell

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Book Overview

From Paul Russell, the award-winning author of The Coming Storm, comes the story of a splinted nuclear family - spanning from the optimistic time of the first moon shot to the bleak time of the early AIDS years.

Astronaut Allen Cloud suffers severely from post-lunar depression, and dreams of returning to the far-off world in which he'd finally found peace. His wife's search for happiness takes her from the bottom of a bottle in middle America to Turkey, where she finds spiritual salvation. Their gay son Jonathan embarks on a journey of self-discovery, leading him from Houston to the sophisticated gay world of the East Coast. His acknowledgment of his sexual identity and pursuit of physical and spiritual fulfillment has its counterpoint in a repressed preacher's son, whose desires Jonathan awakens in high school and whose destiny Jonathan permanently alters.

Told by a brilliant quartet of voices, Sea of Tranquillity demonstrates a spectrum of emotion that sweeps from razor-sharp wit to wrenching heartache, from anger and alienation to acceptance and reconciliation.

ISBN	9780312303723
Author	Paul Russell
Publisher	St. Martin's Griffin
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	August 2003
Language	ENG- English
Pages	371
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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