Marine Life

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Marine Life is written by Linda Svendsen and published by Harper Collins. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443416991 (ISBN 10) and 9781443416993 (ISBN 13).

In these fluidly interwoven stories, Linda Svendsen charts—with tenderness and devastating accuracy—the longings, pleasures, and terrors of belonging to a family. Through the watchful and sometimes astonished eyes of Adele Nordstrom, we view the members of her chaotic, working-class home in Vancouver: her womanizing brother, Ray; her self-destructive sister, Joyce; and her mother, June, a cocktail pianist who believes that a bad marriage is better than no marriage at all. Svendsen’s book paints a tender, piercing portrait of a girl growing up—capturing with perfect clarity the intensity of love, hate, and pain in a contemporary family. A major motion picture based on Marine Life, directed by the award-winning Anne Wheeler and starring Cybill Shepherd, was released in 2000.