{"product_id":"starboard-sea-paperback","title":"Starboard Sea - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmber Dermont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it.--Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJASON PROSPER\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship. \u003cbr\u003eWhen a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason's life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Starboard Sea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eAmber Dermont is an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAMBER DERMONT\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Dave Eggers's \u003ci\u003eBest American Nonrequired Reading 2005\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Francis Ford Coppola's \u003ci\u003eZoetrope: All-Story\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eand Jane Smiley's \u003ci\u003eBest New American Voices 2006\u003c\/i\u003e. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her Ph.D. in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston. She currently serves as an associate professor of English and creative writing at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia and is also the author of the story collection \u003ci\u003eDamage Control.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 8.24 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 29, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761042129184,"sku":"9781250023438","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2504b0d4f1c2b72f7dedf9d2dda71e3c.webp?v=1780197995","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/starboard-sea-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}