Sea and Stones

Sea and Stones: Voices from Atlantia Thomas R. McKague

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Sea and Stones is both good prose and good poetry; its compact plot is enriched by its restless lyricism. Papa, the old man, in speech resembling the Shakespearean Lear and Hemingway's Santiago, tells the story of his loves, lovers, and their succeeding generations who, as voices from Atlantia, converge in person on his isolation after years of estrangement. "Gay angst" is understatement for the passion that underlies this story.
— William Tarvin, Author of The Saint of Sodomy

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Sea and Stones: Voices from Atlantia tells, in the voices of the major characters, the story of a family shattered and then restored in a configuration that is nontraditional and yet eminently more workable. Jim is a former scholar and professor, now living in a rude cabin on a cliff above the Pacific. He cares for his three-year-old granddaughter, Lara, whose father was his own estranged lover, Victor. Lara's mother, Julia, has been gone for nearly two years, living in a feminist "boot camp." Jim's ex-wife, Margarette, lives in Texas with her lover, Tyrone. Since their divorce, she has "earned" her living as mistress to wealthy men.
To call this a dysfunctional family, however, is to overlook the depths of their interwoven relationships and the issues that accompany them. Mr. McKague has a discerning eye for the ways in which we humans manage to hurt ourselves and others as well as for our seemingly foolish tendency to continue to love those who cause us pain long after we should, logically, cease to do so. Sea and Stones is a novella populated with characters who leave the reader hungry to know more about them, their pasts and their thoughts and the whys of their lives. It is about the choices we make and self-discovery, and how those choices affect not only our own lives but those of the people we care about. It is also about family, and how love and caring for each other rather than an accident of genes is what truly defines that word.
Mr. McKague is clearly a keen observer of the human condition and he translates it well in well-crafted prose that provokes the mind as well as the imagination.
- - Elizabeth K. Burton

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