Post by Tomspy77 on Apr 1, 2015 2:10:14 GMT -6
'Water For Elephants' Author In Atlanta, Releases New Novel
mountainx.com/arts/local-author-sara-gruen-pens-an-all-consuming-new-novel/
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Liked Water for Elephants, even wrote a review for it which was for a now defunct PDF web-zine:
hybridparticles.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-review-water-for-elephants.html
Would like to read this one if I ever got the chance, the tie-in to the Loch Ness Monster is a nice bonus lol.
All of "Water for Elephants" author Sara Gruen’s novels feature animals: horses, elephants and apes. Her new novel, however, tackles a different sort of creature: the Loch Ness Monster.
The novel, "At The Water’s Edge," focuses on a wealthy Philadelphian woman, Maddie Hyde, who has never had a healthy, loving relationship – not with her parents, any friends or even her husband. Instead, she has endured perpetual emotional abuse, been deprived of any form of self-expression, and watched her interests discouraged and self-worth demeaned.
Her wealthy husband, Ellis, carries on the emotional abuse of Maddie's mother after they marry, but when they publicly disgrace themselves in a hedonistic fashion at a New Year’s Eve party in 1944, Ellis’ father cuts them off from the family fortune.
To prove his worth, Ellis comes up with the brilliant idea to hunt down the fabled Loch Ness Monster in the Scottish Highland – even though a World War raging in Europe and submarine warfare envelops the sea.
The novel, "At The Water’s Edge," focuses on a wealthy Philadelphian woman, Maddie Hyde, who has never had a healthy, loving relationship – not with her parents, any friends or even her husband. Instead, she has endured perpetual emotional abuse, been deprived of any form of self-expression, and watched her interests discouraged and self-worth demeaned.
Her wealthy husband, Ellis, carries on the emotional abuse of Maddie's mother after they marry, but when they publicly disgrace themselves in a hedonistic fashion at a New Year’s Eve party in 1944, Ellis’ father cuts them off from the family fortune.
To prove his worth, Ellis comes up with the brilliant idea to hunt down the fabled Loch Ness Monster in the Scottish Highland – even though a World War raging in Europe and submarine warfare envelops the sea.
For Gruen’s new novel, At the Water’s Edge, part of that setting, too, was lost to time. The book, which launches on Tuesday, March 31, with an event at Malaprop’s, is set in the Scottish Highlands at the end of World War II.
Still, Gruen (who lives in Asheville) spent a total of five weeks in the British Isles, researching, absorbing the culture and immersing herself — literally. “I got lost in the cover and was utterly panicked,” she says. “The cover” is the local name for a wooded area where main character Maddie, an American socialite, also loses her way.
And, “I tried to persuade the equivalent of the Coast Guard on Loch Ness to tie a rope around my waist and throw me in, fully clothed, so I could describe it accurately,” Gruen says. The mariners did not agree, but the scene, a narrative crest, is adequately chilling.
“One of the things I love about this job is that I get to find something that really interests me and spend a couple of years researching it,” says Gruen. The idea for At the Water’s Edge was sparked when the writer came across a file declassified after 70 years. It contained a 1938 letter stating Scotland Yard’s belief in the Loch Ness monster. “I fell down a Nessie rabbit hole,” she says.
AT THE WATER'S EDGE_final jacketThe resulting novel begins with Maddie, her husband, Ellis, and his friend Hank making an ill-advised wartime voyage across the Atlantic. Barred from joining the military due to color blindness, Ellis — a Harvard dropout recently shunned by his family — decides to prove himself by finding the Loch Ness monster. Unmindful of the war raging and the hardships affecting the residents in Drumnadrochit, Ellis and Hank continue their drunken, clueless bromance. But Maddie, quickly abandoned by the men in their Nessie hunt, befriends the staff of the inn where she’s staying and begins to realize there’s more to life than parties and fancy clothes.
Still, Gruen (who lives in Asheville) spent a total of five weeks in the British Isles, researching, absorbing the culture and immersing herself — literally. “I got lost in the cover and was utterly panicked,” she says. “The cover” is the local name for a wooded area where main character Maddie, an American socialite, also loses her way.
And, “I tried to persuade the equivalent of the Coast Guard on Loch Ness to tie a rope around my waist and throw me in, fully clothed, so I could describe it accurately,” Gruen says. The mariners did not agree, but the scene, a narrative crest, is adequately chilling.
“One of the things I love about this job is that I get to find something that really interests me and spend a couple of years researching it,” says Gruen. The idea for At the Water’s Edge was sparked when the writer came across a file declassified after 70 years. It contained a 1938 letter stating Scotland Yard’s belief in the Loch Ness monster. “I fell down a Nessie rabbit hole,” she says.
AT THE WATER'S EDGE_final jacketThe resulting novel begins with Maddie, her husband, Ellis, and his friend Hank making an ill-advised wartime voyage across the Atlantic. Barred from joining the military due to color blindness, Ellis — a Harvard dropout recently shunned by his family — decides to prove himself by finding the Loch Ness monster. Unmindful of the war raging and the hardships affecting the residents in Drumnadrochit, Ellis and Hank continue their drunken, clueless bromance. But Maddie, quickly abandoned by the men in their Nessie hunt, befriends the staff of the inn where she’s staying and begins to realize there’s more to life than parties and fancy clothes.
mountainx.com/arts/local-author-sara-gruen-pens-an-all-consuming-new-novel/
alien-16
Liked Water for Elephants, even wrote a review for it which was for a now defunct PDF web-zine:
hybridparticles.blogspot.com/2012/03/book-review-water-for-elephants.html
Would like to read this one if I ever got the chance, the tie-in to the Loch Ness Monster is a nice bonus lol.
