eBooks - Literature - Modern Fiction - Scott Spencer - Ship Made of Paper, A
Ship Made of Paper, A eBooks
by Scott Spencer
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Ship Made of Paper, A Summary
| E-Book Extra: Reading Group Guide for A Ship Made of Paper by Scott Spencer. Daniel Paris--a lawyer who has returned from New York City to Leyden, the small chic town of his emotionally barren childhood--lives with Kate Ellis and is like a father to her daughter, Ruby. But he cannot control his desire for Iris Davenport, the African-American woman whose son attends My Little Wooden Shoe's daycare center. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel spends the night at Iris's house--her husband, Hampton, stays in the city during the week--and they begin a sexual liaison that eventually imperils both of their marriages, Daniel's profession, their children's emotional well-being, and their standing among the townspeople. The climactic scene--a search for a blind woman gone missing in the woods--culminates in a tragic accident that permanently, and ironically, alters the lives of the principle characters. With a supporting cast that includes a crusty old Hudson Valley aristocrat and his mistress and his wife, all living together in the same wreck of a mansion, a marauding band of violent city kids who escape from their detention home during the storm, and the preppy, competitive Hampton, who sees racial slights everywhere, this novel is about one man and Everyman. It shows with a keen eye for psychological subtleties and descriptive detail the profoundly disruptive nature of sexual obsession in one specific couple's lives, but it also has general implications about the consequences of romantic passion for that fragile construct that we call normal life. |
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No novelist alive knows the human heart better than Scott Spencer does. No one tells stories about human passion with greater urgency, insight, or sympathy. In A Ship Made of Paper, this artist of desire paints his most profound and compelling canvas yet. Daniel Emerson lives with Kate Ellis and is like a father to her daughter, Ruby. But he cannot control his desire for Iris Davenport, the African-American woman whose son is Ruby's best friend. During a freak October blizzard, Daniel is stranded at Iris's house and they begin a sexual liaison that eventually imperils all their relationships, Daniel's profession, their children's well-being, their own race- blindness, and their view of themselves as essentially good people. A Ship Made of Paper captures all the drama, nuance, and helpless intensity of sexual and romantic yearning, and it bears witness to the age-old conflict between the order of the human community and the disorder of desire. |
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