Ruin Creek

Name: Ruin Creek
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ISBN: 9780385528122

ISBN-10: 0385528124

ISBN-13: 9780385528122

Edition: 1995

Authors: David Payne

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"Masterful . . . Somewhere between Faulkner and Conroy."--The Denver Post In Ruin Creek, David Payne revisits North Carolina's windswept Outer Banks and the Madden family. Writing in the contrapuntal voices of eleven-year-old Joey and his parents, May and Jimmy, David Payne portrays a family that breaks apart, heals, and endures. Joey bears the burden of his parents' increasingly unhappy union. As he struggles to cope with his fractured family life, Joey turns to his grandfather who explains that "a time may come when a person has to let go of what he loves in order to save himself." Imbued in Payne's trademark lyrical prose and psychological acuity, this is a novel "full of life, full of…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/1/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

David Payne is the author of three previous novels: Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street, which won the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award; Early from the Dance; and Ruin Creek. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and now lives in Wells, Vermont.