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001			on1381678876
003			OCoLC
005			20230609113529.0
008			230609s2023 xxu 000 1 eng d
040			_aNFG _beng _cNFG _dNFG
020			_a9798390267592
035			_a(OCoLC)1381678876
092			_aTHOMAS _bALVA
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aThomas, Alva.
245	0	0	_aSalt / _cAlva Thomas.
260			_a[Place of publication not identified] : _bAlva Thomas, _c2023
300			_a139 pages ; _c21 cm
590			_aLocal author.
520			_aAlthough the characters and some of the places, for obvious reasons, are fictional, this book is historically, geographically, and ecologically accurate. Art, the Georgia coast, wealth, ambition, racial disparity, asymmetric love, strong women, death, grief, and neurosis are some of the elements of this composition. It is a novella of approximately 33,300 words. Above everything else, Salt is a story. It is a story that can inform readers about the past or bathe them in nostalgia. It will entertain readers and challenge their emotions. It will make them question just how far we've moved forward since 1965. Salt is the story of Salton St. Claire, son of an ambitious electrical worker and a Romani woman who dreamed of being an artist. When his mother died in childbirth, her older sister took over Salt's upbringing with the same love of family and art. By the time he was an adult, Salt was an extremely educated man in both art and electrical engineering. But art was his passion. The story moves the protagonist from Chicago through Pearl Harbor and Providence, RI, to the barrier islands and marshes of coastal Georgia where tragedy trumped his life of wealth and privilege. In his grief, he felt his only escape was through his art and the barely inhabited islands he had been drawn to for years. The story spans from 1909 through 1965 as the man struggles to save himself from his own desire to save others, triggered by a loss he had no control over, on his way to becoming the world's most legendary painter.
651		0	_aGeorgia _vFiction. _918641
650		0	_aArtists _vFiction. _913480
655		7	_aLocal author. $2 local
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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