Bibliograph

Outside is the ocean, Matthew Lansburgh

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Outside is the ocean, Matthew Lansburgh

Language

eng

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Outside is the ocean

Oclc number

983824486

Responsibility statement

Matthew Lansburgh

Series statement

The Iowa Short Fiction Award in honor of James O. Freedman

Summary

"Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II, crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike's struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike's grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn't until Heike's death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother's perceptions actually were"--, Provided by publisher

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