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Binding: PaperbackFormat: Bargain Price Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: May 03, 2005 Related Items: Alternate Versions: Click to Display Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: A major debut novel that tells a mesmerizing story of love, death, and redemption in a small Long Island fishing community in 1947. Amagansett is a novel as sweeping and haunting as the landscape of sky and sea it evokes. Beautifully and powerfully told, it announces the arrival of a gifted writer who skillfully weaves together a delicate love story, a brutal murder, an unforgettable evocation of a place and time, and characters shaped by the epic forces of nature, class, war, and memory. Conrad Labarde is a first-generation Basque fisherman who casts his nets in the treacherous waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Living alone among the high dunes on the east end of Long Island, he is kept company only by the ghosts of war. He is a working-class man in a region sharply divided between those who farm and fish this isolated finger of land year-round, and the wealthy, who claim it every summer for seaside escape. But in postwar America, the landscape is changing quickly. And lives, too, will change dramatically when Conrad's nets pull in the body of a beautiful young woman, seaweed twined in her hair. Deputy Chief of Police Tom Hollis must traverse the shoals of class and community in order to determine if a crime has been committed and, if so, by whom. From the privileged family whose dead daughter was hiding a torturous secret, to the determined cop who seeks the truth, to the fisherman who is always one step ahead of him-they, and everyone else in Amagansett-will be touched by what the waves cast up that day. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Lots of delicious fish, PLUS a mysteryOn the surface, this is a fairly straightforward murder mystery -- the story of what happens after Long Island fisherman Conrad Lebarde nets a dead girl while fishing just offshore. The incident is investigated by Deputy Chief Tom Hollis of the local police who, having arrived in town only a year earlier, is somewhat of an outsider, identifying neither with the fisher/farmer locals nor the rich townies who have recently made the place their playground. That juxtaposition -- locals vs. rich interloper ... Read More Rating:  - A great summer readSo maybe it is because I finished this book on the beaches of Long Island that I was so pleased with it, but the fact remains that the author does an incredible job of painting the picture of Amagansett in the 40s. The character development and scenic descriptions are incredible. Once you get past the first 40-50 pages, you get most of the names straight and it is smooth sailing after that. A very good story, well told. A much better read than Atonement. Rating: - Moody MysteryMark Mills' Amagansett features coastal long island as the setting in the post World War II era with a mixture of rich and poor characters that clash after a dead woman is pulled up in a fishing net. Conrad, the lead of the story, is a brooding veteran who serves as a powerful protagonist. The writing is fantastic, the mystery interesting, and this book is worth your time and money. Rating: - SUPER mystery!Mark Mills did an outstanding job on this, his first novel. I have also read the Savage Garden and it is good, but doesn't hold a candle to this one! One of the best novels I've read in a long time. Memorable and satisfying! EXCELLENT! Rating:  - Atmospheric NovelIn 1947 a young, rich woman is found in a fisherman's net. Her death is first considered accidental however, Tom Hollis a dective investigates further. Dectective Hollis and the fisherman Conrad who found the body are the maine charcters in the novel. The story is able convey what the eastern part of Long Island was like over 50 years ageo. Conrad is a sympathtic character and the story moves unfolds most of the time with a good pace. I liked it .B+ for crime genre. 
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