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The Lake, the River & the Other Lake

A Novel

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

By Steve Amick

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May 09, 2006 | ISBN 9781400079940

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May 03, 2005 | ISBN 9780375423765

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    About The Lake, the River & the Other Lake

    The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan’s Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising ways–a lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff, while plotting revenge against the jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake; a summer kid from downstate stumbles into a romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the town’s retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend in his computer tutor. A resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake welcomes you into a world that you may never want to leave.

    About The Lake, the River & the Other Lake

    The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan’s Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising ways–a lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff, while plotting revenge against the jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake; a summer kid from downstate stumbles into a romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the town’s retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend in his computer tutor. A resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake welcomes you into a world that you may never want to leave.

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    About Steve Amick

    Steve Amick is the author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Playboy, Story, the anthology The Sound of… More about Steve Amick

    About Steve Amick

    Steve Amick is the author of The Lake, the River & the Other Lake and Nothing But a Smile. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Playboy, Story, the anthology The Sound of… More about Steve Amick

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Anchor
    May 09, 2006 | 384 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781400079940

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Anchor
    May 03, 2005 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780375423765
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    Praise

    “A wonderful novel. . . . Very moving and very funny.” —The Washington Post Book World

    “A comic novel with a dark and thoughtful edge, which is the mark of all good comedy. There is enough absurdity and energetic plotting here, enough incongruity and haplessness to keep the laughs coming.” —Chicago Tribune

    “Amick displays myriad gifts throughout, creating a believable, heartfelt fictional world and ambitiously introducing a symphonic arrangement of stories. . . . It’s a summer well spent in Amick’s amiable company.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    “The last writer to celebrate the charms of rural Michigan with equal panache was probably Ernest Hemingway.” —Los Angeles Times

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