Scofield, Walking Dunes.
Scofield, Walking Dunes.
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Scofield, Sandra. Walking Dunes. [Signed]. New York, The Permanent Press, 1992. 14.5 x 22cm. 247 pages. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition. Signed by author on title page. Basin, in West Texas, is the setting of Scofield’s impressive third novel, following the American Book Award-winning, NBA nominee Beyond Deserving . Here she draws a finely etched, sensitive portrait of an intelligent, imaginative but flawed young man coming of age under difficult circumstances. David Puckett is desperate to get through his senior year in high school and escape Basin forever. Aware of the social abyss that divides him from the country club set he encounters on the tennis tournament circuit, David becomes even more dissatisfied with his bickering parents—his sour, acerbic father, who has abandoned the family once before and will again, and his exhausted, slatternly mother. As he blunders his way through relationships with four young women, David discovers different aspects of his own nature and makes ethical choices that determine his future. Scofield’s subtly nuanced portrayal of the awkwardness, confusion and inchoate desires of adolescence is remarkable for its balance, insight and cumulative power. [Publishers Weekly]
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