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    The Salt Point: A Novel
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    The Salt Point: A Novel

    By Paul Russell

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    From the award-winning author of The Coming Storm comes the brilliantly conceived and precisely rendered novel The Salt Point, a compelling novel of four people and their intermingled and unwinding desires.

    Anatole 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.

    Set in a Poughkeepsie mall--the Main Street to a new generation--The Salt Point 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateSep 9, 2000
    ISBN9781466825994
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    The Salt Point: A Novel
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    Paul Russell

    Paul Russell is the author of The Salt Point and the Ferro-Grumley Award–winning The Coming Storm. The recipient of many nominations and awards for his writing, he is the author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov, named by The Washington Post as one of the five most important books of the year. A writing professor at Vassar and the only author to have received the Ferro-Grumley Award twice, he lives in Poughkeepsie, NY.

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    • 4/5
      Unashamedly gay hairdresser Anatole and live at home Lydia, both approaching 30, have been life long friends, Chris has known them more recently, Anatole is in love with him, and once he was intimate with Lydia, but Chris know just remains friends. Then into their little circle is drawn Leigh, young (is he even 18 yrs old?), secretive, frail and adorably beautiful. The interaction between the quartet, the confused sexuality, love and betrayal forms the basis of Russell’s novel. I am a great fan of Paul Russell’s work, and here his writing is no less engaging, and while there are some very touching episodes there is no real plot, the story simply revolves around the changing relationship between the four main characters. It is a rather bleak story, and in the end none the four comes out particularly well. While it may not be the best of Paul Russell’s books, it is certainly worth reading for the beauty of the prose alone.