The Water Here Is Never Blue

• Date de parution : 20/08/2013
• Editeur : Penguin Canada
• EAN : 9780143189459
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• Support : Livre numérique

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• Thème : Non attribué
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In the 1970s, Shelagh Plunkett, a teenage girl from Vancouver, travels with her middle-class family to Guyana and Indonesia, where her father, a civil engineer, has been posted to help with those countries’ water systems. On the surface, she lives a protected life, attending girls’... Voir plus

In the 1970s, Shelagh Plunkett, a teenage girl from Vancouver, travels with her middle-class family to Guyana and Indonesia, where her father, a civil engineer, has been posted to help with those countries’ water systems. On the surface, she lives a protected life, attending girls’ schools run by nuns and surrounded by household staff. But there is also a fearlessness and recklessness in the girl--a hotel tryst at fifteen, swimming with piranhas, and cavorting with monkeys.