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In This Spotlight On Diver
About Diver
From the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, a moving new novel, Diver, the story of an abiding love between a father and son.
On the morning that his father, Navy deep-sea diver Mac Macoby, dies of a heart attack, 12-year-old Robert is engulfed by the memories that tie them together. The memories come in fragments, some broken, some incomplete, but together they form the portrait of a man shaped by the tides of history, not a hero’s life but a heroic one, nonetheless. Diver is about one California family in the 1960s, and about every family, a novel about the rigors of military life amid the turbulence of the counterculture movement, a novel of how memory can fail us, serve us, and support us through loss.
Praise for Diver and Other Books by Lewis Buzbee
Diver
“A thoughtful and moving, but artfully unsentimental, depiction of a son’s love. Buzbee achieves a complex amalgam of celebration and lament; his narrator adores his father and sees his “heroic life” as a model of manhood, but precisely because of this adoration, he experiences his dad’s loss as a catastrophic blow. Overall, it’s an admirably meditative exploration of the depths and travails of a father-son relationship.”–Kirkus Reviews
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
“I cannot remember when I have read a book with such delight.”–Paul Yamazaki, City Lights Bookstore
The Haunting of Charles Dickens
“Deliciously elaborate… The sights, sounds and stenches of 19th-century London are palpable.”–Kirkus Reviews
Steinbeck’s Ghost
“An intriguing introduction/companion to Steinbeck’s work that imaginatively conveys the power of literature to transport people to another time and place.”–Publishers Weekly
Bridge of Time
“This hybrid novel melds history, mystery and adventure into an imaginative and thought-provoking whole.”–San Francisco Chronicle
Fliegelman’s Desire
“A stately, moving first novel.”–Kirkus Reviews
About Lewis Buzbee, Author of Diver
Lewis Buzbee is the author of The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop, Blackboard, After the Gold Rush, Fliegelman’s Desire, and First to Leave Before the Sun (with Dave Tilton), as well as three award-winning books for younger readers, Steinbeck’s Ghost, The Haunting of Charles Dickens, and Bridge of Time. His essays, poems, stories, and interviews have appeared in Lit Hub, GQ, The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, ZYZZYVA, Black Warrior Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A long-time bookseller and publisher, he lives in San Francisco with his wife, the poet Julie Bruck, and not far from their adult child Maddy.
Source: Publisher
Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
Pub Date: Feb 11 2025
ISBN: 9798822946842
Titles by Lewis Buzbee
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