Hula
a novel
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Word Count
38,750 words, Guess
Page Count
155 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1404956M
- ISBN-100393035891
- OCLC Control Number27937224
- OCLC Control Numberhulanovel00shea
- Library of Congress Control Number93013144
and 2 more
- LibraryThing124682
- Goodreads3322929
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3569.H39116 H8 1994
Description
For two young girls in the early 1960s, the family backyard is both playground and prison. Steamy, verdant, cloistered - the yard's secret places tantalize the imagination, but also reveal disturbing glimpses of a war-haunted father and dreamy, distant mother. The younger sister narrates, introducing us to her older sister's ritual taunts, her mother's increasing withdrawal, her father's volatile temper. Told over the course of two hot summers, the story builds in power and portent as the girls' sexuality surfaces and the parents' marriage strains toward its end. Voyeuristic, at times surreal, Shea's lyrical first novel probes the dark corner where adolescent fantasies and terrors converge.
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- Hula: a novel
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