The Salt Point
A Novel
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Leigh, a teenaged hustler, enthralls Lydia, gay hairdresser Anatole and bisexual Christopher in this tale of alcoholism, drugs and shifting relationships set in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. According to PW, ``Graphic homosexual encounters combined with some graceful writing might remind readers of Edmund White, although Russell doesn't aim to be quite so literary . ''
Customer Reviews
A Book to Read Again
A great book. I first read this book in 1990 when it came out in hardback. I have read it again in the last 30 years. When I saw a sequel had been written, I purchased the book on my iPad to reread before reading Immaculate Blue.
A whirlwind of personal demons.
A good example of how screwed up four people can get when they rely purely on their fears, their pasts and their illusions. A hurricane of defective personalities that arrive dented and damaged, clash and separate. All changed, but none for the better.