Items related to The Ocean Was Salt
Synopsis
These stories flow from a most touching recount of the Civil Rights Movement (The Darling Buds of May set in Oxford, MS) to a completely raucous tale of academia (Belle's Balls). And the subject matter ranges as widely as the tone. For instance, in Seeing It Through, a woman diagnosed with cancer confronts and defeats her bumbling, uncaring doctor and the equally bumbling medical system in a surprisingly funny story. In Feeling Salty, a story that Sena Naslund especially praised for its insight into father-son relations, a divorced father is confronted by his angry teenager son in a spectacular way that oddly leaves both father and son closer. Shifting locale in Out, Cobb places two Southern belle friends in New York City and has them take on successive metropolitan playboys. And in a story of Alzheimer's, And the Word Was God, we find a surprising and magical redemption. Whatever the mood, the constant running throughout Loretta Cobb's first collection is a Southern voice that adeptly crosses sexual, economic, and age barriers to paint a picture of the South moving from the early sixties to the present. In doing so, Loretta Cobb has used a Southern motif and setting to move beyond regionality to encompass everyone's problems.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
Review
"Loretta Cobb's new collection. The Ocean was Salt is made up with stories so sassy and crystaline and wise that you feel like standing up and applauding when you reach the last wonderful story called "Moving." In the literary world something remarkable has been going on in Alabama for a long time, and Loretta Cobb now adds her name to this renaissance."
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherLivingston Pr
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1931982260
- ISBN 13 9781931982269
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages154
- Rating
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7. Seller Inventory # G1931982260I4N10
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.7. Seller Inventory # G1931982260I4N00
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Very Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00048681587
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00069151646
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: Good. Item in very good condition! Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00074827947
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Published by
Livingston Press/University of West Alabama, Livingston, 2004
ISBN 10: 1931982260
ISBN 13: 9781931982269
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by the author to the title page and signed again on the dedication page to the new book owners. Solid copy. BP/Fiction/Stories. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # ABE-1681359652946
Quantity: 1 available
Stock Image
The Ocean Was Salt
Published by
Livingston, Alabama, U.S.A.: Livingston Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1931982260
ISBN 13: 9781931982269
Used
Soft cover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: George Kent, Bookseller, Silverhill, AL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This first edition trade paper back has been inscribed by the author and signed "Loretta" and the initial "L". It is in as new condition. Language: eng. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 18552
Quantity: 1 available