Compass Rose
  • Published: 15 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9780375709135
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99

Compass Rose

  • John Casey
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A Providence Journal Best Book of the Year
A Seattle Times Best Book of the Year 
 
John Casey follows up his National Book Award-winning novel Spartina with an extraordinary return to the marshes of Rhode Island’s South County.  
 
Elsie Buttrick, the prodigal daughter of Sawtooth Point, has just given birth to Rose, the child conceived during her passionate affair with Dick Pierce. At first she is wary of the discomfort her presence poses to Dick’s wife, May, and other inhabitants of their gossipy, insular community. But as Rose slowly becomes the unofficially adopted daughter and little sister of half the town, she magnetically steers everyone in her orbit toward unexpected—and unbreakable—relationships.
  • Published: 15 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9780375709135
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 400
  • RRP: $32.99
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Praise for Compass Rose

"Each character in Mr. Casey's large cast is gratifyingly complex, and the novel hums with energy." --The Wall Street Journal

"Casey is a brilliant observer . . . and his descriptions of nature are breathtaking." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The characters shine so brightly. . . . A very good novel." --Entertainment Weekly

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