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by Christina Schwarz

Author:

Christina Schwarz

ISBN13:

978-0747267713

ISBN:

0747267715

Language:

English

Publisher:

Headline Book Publishing; New Ed edition (July 5, 2001)

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Fiction

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Genre Fiction

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Home Christina Schwarz Drowning Ruth. ‘Ruth remembered drowning. The first sentence of this brilliantly understated psychological thriller leaps off the page and captures the reader's imagination.

Home Christina Schwarz Drowning Ruth. The first sentence of this brilliantly understated psychological thriller leaps off the page and captures the reader's imaginatio. chwarz deftly uses first-person narration to heighten the drama. Her prose is spare but bewitching, and she juggles the speakers and time periods with the surety of a seasoned novelist. Rather than attempting a trumped-up suspenseful finale, Schwarz ends her novel gently, underscoring the delicate power of her tale.

by Christina Schwarz. The bestselling author of Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, and adultery

by Christina Schwarz. by Christina Schwarz. The bestselling author of Drowning Ruth returns to the small-town Wisconsin she so brilliantly evoked with this gripping novel about love, marriage, and adultery. In the summer of 1963 a plot for revenge destroys a career, a friendship, and a family.

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Christina Schwarz grew up in Wisconsin. She and her husband live in Los Angeles, where she is at work on her second novel.

Drowning Ruth offers tender gifts–the shore, the lake, the island, all keeping their own mysteries. The Washington Post Book World. So often an avid reader can predict where a story is going by the middle of the book-but Christina Schwarz really does a wonderful job of weaving a web that you just can't put all the pieces together until the last few pages. The story takes place in Wisconsin and begins with Amanda, who is a nurse in the early 1920's, experiencing difficulties focusing on her patients at the hospital where she works.

The morning had lured three sailboats from their docks, and they zigged and zagged on the dark blue water, their canvas brilliant white triangles against the light blue sky.

Christina Schwarz t the spray thrown up by his kicking wet my cheeks. Wasn't this enough, more than enough? Our happiness, after all, had once been real, even if he'd lied to spur it on. Why had I, in insisting that I be the most prized, the only beloved, hidden myself away from such delights? After his second lap, he hung onto the boat, breathing laboriously

Drowning Ruth This book kept my interest until the very end - I wanted to know exactly what happened at the lake that night. Drowning Ruth This book kept my interest until the very end - I wanted to know exactly what happened at the lake that night. With each chapter the layers were peeled back and you'd get a little more information each time - and that was about all the plots and.

CHILLING, PRECOCIOUSLY GOOD START TO A BRIGHT NEW NOVELIST’S CAREER. The New York Times gripping psychological thriller. In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisconsin lake.

Deftly written and emotionally powerful, Drowning Ruth is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart, of the dangers of keeping secrets and the explosive repercussions when they are exposed. A mesmerizing and achingly beautiful debut.Winter, 1919. Amanda Starkey spends her days nursing soldiers wounded in the Great War. Finding herself suddenly overwhelmed, she flees Milwaukee and retreats to her family's farm on Nagawaukee Lake, seeking comfort with her younger sister, Mathilda, and three-year-old niece, Ruth. But very soon, Amanda comes to see that her old home is no refuge--she has carried her troubles with her. On one terrible night almost a year later, Amanda loses nearly everything that is dearest to her when her sister mysteriously disappears and is later found drowned beneath the ice that covers the lake. When Mathilda's husband comes home from the war, wounded and troubled himself, he finds that Amanda has taken charge of Ruth and the farm, assuming her responsibility with a frightening intensity. Wry and guarded, Amanda tells the story of her family in careful doses, as anxious to hide from herself as from us the secrets of her own past and of that night.Ruth, haunted by her own memory of that fateful night, grows up under the watchful eye of her prickly and possessive aunt and gradually becomes aware of the odd events of her childhood. As she tells her own story with increasing clarity, she reveals the mounting toll that her aunt's secrets exact from her family and everyone around her, until the heartrending truth is uncovered.Guiding us through the lives of the Starkey women, Christina Schwarz's first novel shows her compassion and a unique understanding of the American landscape and the people who live on it. From the Hardcover edition.

uspeh

I'd like to give this 3.5 stars. I absolutely loved the story for the first 3/4 of the book. Then Amanda pulls the typewriten notebook pages from Ruth's purse. When Ruth informs her those are from when she made mistakes typing at the Owens residence, there is no discussion about it. Amanda simply launches into her plan with which she needs Ruth's help. This is despite the fact that several pages earlier the reader is told Amanda didn't know Ruth skipped school to fill in for Imogene at work. That plot error bothered me. The ending seemed to come upon us a little too fast and I was sorely disappointed when Ruth stayed behind with the verbally abusive and obviously demented Amanda while Imogene fulfilled her dream life in Chicago. I wanted better for Ruth throughout the novel. Overall, a great read.

Elildelm

This story is told mostly by Amanda, who has raised Ruth, the other narrator, since her mother drowned when she was very young.. Amanda lives on a farm with Ruth. When her sister's husband comes home from WW1, he finds that his wife has drowned. He is frantic trying to find out if his wife, Mattie, had cheated on him because he sees a girl in the nearby town that resembles her. This is another strand in this unpleasant story. He has no plans to live the rest of his life on the farm. Amanda is so attached to Ruth that there is nothing else in life that she's interested in. A whole list of very unlikeable characters.
I feel that the story dragged on and the resolution to the story was very unsatisfying.

Malann

This was one of the best stories I have read in a long time. So often an avid reader can predict where a story is going by the middle of the book-but Christina Schwarz really does a wonderful job of weaving a web that you just can't put all the pieces together until the last few pages.
The story takes place in Wisconsin and begins with Amanda, who is a nurse in the early 1920's, experiencing difficulties focusing on her patients at the hospital where she works. This is viewed as odd by her co-workers as she has always been viewed as a "natural" at her profession and well regarded by all. But suddenly she isn't coping, and she is unable to focus, and soon is becoming ill, and sleeping all the time on the job. The Dr. she reports to suggests she take some "time off" and visit her family back on the farm--he attributes her troubles to having recently lost both her Father and Mother. So off she goes, home to the farm and to her sister Mattie whose husband is fighting in the war, and her toddler niece, Ruth. This is where the journey begins and the deceit starts.........

I would recommend this book--it's a real page turner. I for one will be reading more of Christina Schwarz.

Ericaz

I like unreliable narrators, which I feel Amanda is. Even when it’s not being told from her first-person POV, much of this is Amanda’s story and I took everything I learned through her with a grain of salt. Amanda, Ruth, Mattie, Carl, Imogene, and Arthur are interesting characters, and they kept me engaged. The ending surprised me, and I liked it much more than any of the variations I’d imagined as I read. The book felt a little long, which is why I gave it four instead of five stars.

Jeb

This was a recent book club selection, and I didn't realize I had already read it until I got well into the book. I actually enjoyed it more the second time around, which counters my usual position of never re-reading a book. This is a well-written story, but one we have read many times before in other novels, especially those described as "women's literature". It is a story of family dysfunction, secrets and co-dependence masquerading as loyalty. There is a backstory mystery that by the end is revealed to be the cliché of betrayal by a cruel married man. A solid and enjoyable read, but not a memorable one.

Reighbyra

I really liked this book. In the beginning I was a little thrown off by all the secrets and mystery of it all. You get this impression about the main characters and it's hard to root for any of them. As you read you are taken into the past, forward to the present and then sent back to a different time in the past multiple times as the author gives you bits and pieces of what really happened. Little by little the truth behind it all unfolds and you learn the true spirit of the characters.

As I was reading I really only liked Carl. He seemed innocent and kind-hearted compared to the women in this book. By the end I loved every last character. It shows you, we as humans are not just one-dimensional, but more capable of so many things. We aren't just good or bad. There is so much gray area. Judgment depends on circumstance.

Ttyr

Boring, flat, confusing and choppy. My first ever Oprah's book club book, most likely my last. At least not something I will pay for. Seriously, I would like my money back. Flat flat flat, is really what I keep thinking to myself.

This story begins in the early 1940s. Mattie died the night Mandy (her sister) gave birth. Both sisters had daughters (Ruth and Imogene) but only Mattie was married. After her sister’s death Mandy has no choice but to give up her baby (Imogene) to be raised by her friend. This is the story of what lengths a person will go to to protect her secret.

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