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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780385337632
ISBN: 0385337639
Label: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2003-01
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Release Date: January 13, 2002
Sales Rank: 22474
Studio: Dial Press Trade Paperback
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing—a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.
Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur—offstage.
Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings—Luke, Matt, and Bo—who were once her entire world.
In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today.
Amazon.com Review:
Canadian writer Mary Lawson's debut novel is a beautifully crafted and shimmering tale of love, death, and redemption. The story, narrated by 26-year-old Kate Morrison, is set in the eponymous Crow Lake, an isolated rural community where time has stood still. The reader dives in and out of a year's worth of Kate's childhood memories--when she was 7 and her parents were killed in an automobile accident that left Kate, her younger sister Bo, and two older brothers, Matt and Luke, orphaned. When Kate, the successful zoologist and professor who is accustomed to dissecting everything through a microscope, receives an invitation to Matt's son's 18th birthday party, she must suddenly analyze her own relationship and come to terms with her past before she forsakes a future with the man she loves. Kate is still in turmoil over the events of that fateful summer and winter 20 years ago when the tragedy of another local family, the Pyes, spilled over into their lives with earth-shattering consequences. But does the tragedy really lie in the past or the present? Lawson's narrative flows effortlessly in ever-increasing circles, swirling impressions in the reader's mind until form takes shape and the reader is left to reflect on the whole. Crow Lake is a wonderful achievement that will ripple in and out of the reader's consciousness long after the last page is turned. --Nicola Perry, Amazon.co.uk
Average Rating: 
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Mary Lawson writes in a foreboding manner without making the reader feel overly anxious; "I've gone over that mealtime many times in my mind, less because of Luke's astounding news than because it turned out to be our last family supper."
Kate, Luke, Matt and Bo Morrison are left to raise themselves after their parents are killed. The decisions the older brothers make to care for their young sisters and the paths their lives take is well told.
Lawson gets the nuances that ... Read More
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Crow Lake tells the story of the Morrison family and how, in a small community, all lives are interweaved. Passing from past to present, we quickly learn the story of Kate and her brothers and sisters, who tragically lose their parents. We also meet the Pyes, a family that has struggled for generations with a hidden turmoil.
I was able to read this book rather quickly, despite how busy I have been at work. Well written and wonderfully descriptive in it's narrative, Crow Lake is all in all ... Read More
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Apropos in light of the title of this review, not far into reading the novel my hackles went up...and they basically stayed there for the duration of the book. There was something in the narrator's tone, the 'Wait until you see how this all turns out' way things were put that disturbed me. Because a) it was incredibly risky, b) it seemed cheap and c) it had me wondering just how out-of-control this début was going to get.
As I approached the end, my suspicions were confirmed, my disappointment ... Read More
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I also found this one hard to put down....great storyteller! From the beginning to the end, you live and feel the lives and the place where this all happens so clearly. I'm recommending this on to family and friends...it was a great find!
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"Mrs.Stanovich arrived at least twice a week, heaving her bulk from behind the steering wheel of her husband's battered truck and puffing her way up to the front door with two loaves of bread balancing on the top of a bushel basket of corn, or a leg of pork tucked under her hand and a sack of potatoes under the other."
Crow Lake was very touching for me. Kate Morrison narrates her story with the human touch, which allowed me to feel her every emotion, the joy, the relief, sadness, the good, the ... Read More
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