Blue Field (Tradepaper)

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When her friend Jane dies while exploring an underwater cave with her husband Rand, Marilyn takes up diving again, to honourand outdoher late friend. Marilyn drags Rand with her as she increasingly pushes herself far past her limits and skill level, endangering them both in their private underwater version of hell.More than two decades afterthe release of her sensational, critically acclaimed collectionDriving Men Mad,Blue Fieldmarks Elise Levines much anticipated return to form.PRAISE FORBLUE FIELDElise Levines novelBlue Fieldis as immersive, hyper-vivid and true as fiction ever gets. Levine swims in the alien worlds of underwater caves, gets caught up inthe forcefulcurrents of loveandthefleeting, peripheral shadows ofsex and death. Here are characters whoneed to prove something big and occasionallymake terrible mistakes. This novelilluminatesthe murky world of fast and altering friendships;what it feels liketo lose the people we love. All of this rendered in compressed prose diamond hard, diamond bright. Fill your lungs; you are about to dive deep. Break the surface;everything glittering and changed.Lisa Moore, author ofFebruaryWhat James Salter did inSolo Facesfor mountain climbing, Elise Levine does for diving.Blue Fieldis full immersionan adventure story in a literary guise, one that holds your head under the current of its gorgeous prose until you gasp. Mysterious and terrifying, this book enthralled me.Caroline Adderson, author ofEllen in PiecesandA History of ForgettingElise LevinesBlue Fieldsubmerged me in its exhilarating mix of languageat once visceral and beautiful, intense and immediate, moving and distant. This deep and complex narrative of loss and risk wrecked me and then rescued me with an unexpected compassion.Blue Fieldis an exquisite novel.Michael Kimball, author ofDear EverybodyPRAISE FOR ELISE LEVINEA dazzling wordsmith, a lexical tease, Levine is like a kid let loose in a leaf pile, kicking up words for the sheer joy of watching them spin.Toronto StarReading Elise Levine is akin to a wild ride down a dark road at night Bold and startling Precipitous and exhilarating.Globe and MailTaut and direct, Elise Levines writing compresses the distance between art and audience, drawing a reader experientially through her fiction. Levine is a visceral imagist. Her fiction renders event indistinguishable from emotion, affecting the gut as fully as the mind The tension that Levines writing evokes remains unresolved, extending beyond the page of her fictions.Ottawa Citizen