Swell
- 264 pages
- 10 hours of reading
The Glassman family believe they've found refuge from post 9-11 Manhattan at their new home in Rockaway, Queens--until 92-year-old murderer Rose appears to reclaim their beach house.
Jill Eisenstadt Book order
June 15, 1963
Jill Eisenstadt is an author whose works are characterized by a sharp insight into the complexities of human relationships and the search for meaning in everyday life. Her style is often described as lyrical yet starkly honest, allowing readers to deeply empathize with her characters and their dilemmas. Through her narratives, she explores themes of identity, memory, and cultural alienation, always seeking beauty even in the most challenging circumstances. Her writing is a reward for readers who appreciate literature that provokes thought and enriches the soul.
- 2017
- 1988
Timmy and Chowderhead and Peg are lifeguards. They spend summers sitting in those tall chairs, smoking dope and staring at the waves, swatting insects, tormenting seagulls. Winters they work shit jobs like unloading trucks at Mickey's Deli. At night, winter and summer, they drink. Drink and get rowdy. Then there's Alex, the girl who gets away, not only from old boyfriend Timmy but also from "Rotaway"-on scholarship to a rich-kid's college in New England. One midsummer night when the four are reunited, tensions erupt in feats of daring and self-destruction during the wild, cathartic, near-sacred lifeguard ritual known as the Death Keg. Brilliantly capturing the restlessness and casual nihilism of working-class youth with no options, Jill Eisenstadt's acclaimed first novel startles in its power and originality, its depth of feeling, its bright and dark comic turns.
