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The Old Man By The Sea
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New Yorker Best Book Of 2025Literary Hub Notable Small Press Book Of 2025Kirkus Best Fiction Of 2025From The Author Of Ties And The House On Via Gemito StarnoneS Sensitivity, Nuance, And Subtlety Are Wonderful To Behold.Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)Domenico StarnoneS The Old Man By The Sea Is A Slim Masterpiece Of A Novel About An 82YearOld Neapolitan Man, Nicola, Who Has Spent His Entire Life Telling Stories, Becoming Very, Very Good At It. In Words, With His Pen, In The Notebook He Carries With Him Everywhere, He Records LifeS Minutiae, Its Ephemera, Those Vibrating Essences And Almost Imperceptible Atoms Of Existence That Most Of Us Barely Notice But That Constitute The Very Stuff Of Life. Yes, Recording The Universe In Each Grain Of Sand Has Become Second Nature To Nicola. But Of Course, There Is Always Something That Escapes. Something Unnamable That Resists, Remaining On The Margins, Slithering Away, A Movement Intuited Rather Than Identified. And This Fact, For Nicola, Is A Source Of Deep Anxiety And A Growing Sense Of Failure.Now, Ensconced In A House On The Dunes South Of Rome, Nicola Spends His Mornings Writing, Watching The Waves, And Observing Lu, A Store Clerk In Her Twenties Whose Graceful Canoeing Stirs Faint Echoes Of His MotherA Glamorous, Headstrong Woman Who Defied Convention With Her Beauty And Creativity. As Nicola Reflects On The Women Who Shaped Him And The Passions He Has Never Outgrown, He Finds Himself Drawn Into The Nefarious Intrigues Of The Small Seaside Town And Its Inhabitants. He Will End By Embarking On An Improbable And IllAdvised Kayak Adventure Of His Own With LuS Young Son, As Starnone Himself Brings This Slim, Virtuoso Novel About Eros And Melancholy, Memory And Reinvention, Age And Imagination, To An Unexpected Conclusion.
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