
Surfaces of a Diamond
Louis D. Rubin(Author)
Louisiana State University Press
Published on 27. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-8071-2968-5 (ISBN)
Description
This delightfully subtle second novel about Omar Kohn of Charleston, South Carolina, recalls his fifteenth summer, marked by playing baseball, writing for a newspaper, reading about the Civil War, daydreaming, and going on his first date. Underneath such ordinary events, enormous personal changes happen to Omar. He learns about his parents' frailties and their very different family backgrounds as he sorts through questions about his own identity and destiny. "Under Louis Rubin's touch, Charleston in the late 1930s exerts its own effect on Omar's maturation. It proves a baffling, traumatic, enriching time in a boy's life, and the reader shares it acutely" (Booklist).
Reviews / Votes
"The multiple facets of the diamond of a boy's nature in a summer of crucial transition." "This quiet, reflective story of controlled, contained feeling will be received gratefully by readers tired of hype. It strongly evokes mood, time, and especially place. One warms greatly to Omar, with his penchant for setting himself up to be disappointed." - Wall Street Journal; "A richly textured, evocative, leisurely paced novel.... It is a pleasure to spend the summer of 1939 with Omar Kohn and his circle." - Sewanee Review"More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baton Rouge
United States
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8071-2968-5 (9780807129685)
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Person
Louis D. Rubin, Jr., is one of the South's most distinguished scholars of literature and teachers of writing. His other novels are The Golden Weather and The Heat of the Sun. In all, his books number more than fifty. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, he lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.