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    An Ocean Without a Shore: A Novel
    An Ocean Without a Shore: A Novel
    An Ocean Without a Shore: A Novel
    Audiobook9 hours

    An Ocean Without a Shore: A Novel

    Written by Scott Spencer

    Narrated by Will Damron

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    A wildly entertaining and occasionally heartbreaking story of frustrated longing, and the lengths we will go for those we love—even if they don’t love us in return

    An Ocean Without a Shore, from the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Endless Love and Man in the Woods, is a beautifully rendered exploration of that most timeless of human dilemmas: the one in which your love is left unreturned.

    Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip’s devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence in Manhattan and the Hudson Valley, Kip will be forced to reckon with the prison of his own making and decide how much he is willing to sacrifice for a love that may never be shared.

    Picking up where his most recent novel, River Under the Road, left off, but writing squarely in the vein of Endless Love, his classic novel of passion and obsession, Scott Spencer gives us an intimate, immersive, and unsettling portrait of the devastation we will wreak in the name of love, and the bitterness of a friendship ravaged by fathomless yearning.

    Editor's Note

    Beautiful story of unrequited love…

    Scott Spencer’s (“River Under the Road”) new novel is an absorbing, heartbreaking, and beautifully written story of unrequited love. Forty-something Kip has been secretly longing for and lusting after his best friend, Thaddeus, for years. But when Thaddeus suddenly needs his help, what will Kip be willing to sacrifice to come to his aid?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateJun 16, 2020
    ISBN9780063006140
    Author

    Scott Spencer

    Scott Spencer is the author of twelve novels, including Endless Love,Waking the Dead, A Ship Made of Paper, and Willing. He has taught at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Williams College, the University of Virginia, and at Eastern Correctional Facility as part of the Bard Prison Initiative. He lives in upstate New York.

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      “I have learned one of the lessons of loneliness, one of its shocking side effects, desire goes on and on, like an ocean without a shore.”A beautifully written meditation on the dangers of wasting your life wishing and hoping for someone you can never have.