In A House By The Sea - Hardcover

Sandy Gingras

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1593220138 ISBN 13: 9781593220136

Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

In a genre all her own, Sandy Gingras mixes prose, poetry and artwork to delight readers with witty observation, reflection, and a depth of feeling in her deceptively simple series of books. In a House by the Sea -- a collection of short essays, stories, prose and illustrated vignettes, inspired by a metaphorical beach house -- is about emotion and feeling as much as place, mood and memory as much as the beach. In the essay ''This is What Makes Me,'' she writes of being ''oriented in life by a beach (more emotional than geographic) that I keep walking on; a summer (more attitude than season) that I keep longing for.'' ''A is for Attitude'' offers a whimsical beach womans A-to-Z (A is for Away. Away, beach woman, away with you to the beach! You've had enough reality.). ''A Beach House -- What the Realtor Should Have Told You'' and ''What the Beach House is For'' remind us that what we really desire at the beach (or anywhere) can not be bought. This book is a sweet, gentle reminder that simplicity and happiness emerge from living in the moment, from finding beauty in one's surroundings and an awareness of the moods and feelings that make life whole.

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From the Inside Flap

My mother used to tell me that if I stayed in the ocean for too long I'd turn into a fish. She'd examine me later and say, "There's sand in your ears; I think it's gotten into your brain. If I listen to your heart, you are like a conch shell. I think I can hear the ocean waves echoing." And it was true. The sea got inside of me somehow. And it stayed... and changed me... and defined me. I am part fish, part sand, part echoey wave. And wherever I go, I'm in a house by the sea. Navigation and Change, Storm, Shell and Sunset, The Moment and The Moon - all the questions and lessons of the sea are a part of me. These are things I think and write and doodle about in this book. It is a little bit serious, a little bit fairy tale, part struggle, part ease, and some nostalgia and childhood and philosophy all rolled into one - just like a day at the beach.

About the Author

Sandy Gingras is the author-illustrator of the ''How To Live'' series of inspirational books, including How to Live at the Beach, How to Live on an Island, Reasons to be Happy at the Beach, At the Beach House: A Guest Book and How to be a Friend.

About this edition

• Publisher: Down The Shore Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1593220138
• ISBN 13: 9781593220136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 71