The Lake, the River & the Other Lake -- Steve Amick, Paperback

The resort town of Weneshkeen, nestled along Michigan's Gold Coast, has become a complex melting pot: townies and old timers mix with ritzy summer folk, migrant cherry pickers, wily river guides, and a few Ojibwe Indians. As the summer blooms, these lives mingle in surprising ways-a lifelong resident and Vietnam Vet pursues the take-no-guff deputy sheriff, while plotting revenge against the jet-skiers polluting his beloved lake; a summer kid from downstate stumbles into a romance with the sexiest rich girl in town; the town's retired reverend discovers the Internet and a new friend in his computer tutor. A resonant social comedy with richly-drawn characters and quirky charm, The Lake, the River & the Other Lake welcomes you into a world that you may never want to leave.

Author: Steve Amick
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 05/09/2006
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.18w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9781400079940

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 23
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 108071 / Lake, the River & the Other Lake


Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/11/2006 pg. 32

About the Author
Steve Amick's short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Southern Review, The New England Review, Playboy, Story, the anthology The Sound of Writing, and on National Public Radio. He has an MFA from George Mason University and has been a college instructor, playwright, copywriter, songwriter, and musician. He lives in Michigan, dividing his time between his hometown, Ann Arbor, and a family cottage on a famously clear lake along the northern edge of the Lower Peninsula.