Waterline

From Ross Raisin the highly acclaimed author of <em>Out Backward</em>--a debut novel Colm Tóibín called compelling disturbing and often very funny--comes the moving and story of an ex-shipyard worker's journey of grief and reclamation in the wake of his wife's death. Lyrical and resonant with echoes of Paul Harding's <em>Tinkers </em>and Anne Enright's <em>The Gathering</em> Raisin's blue collar story of a man's fractured search for a new beginning is a powerfully voiced penetratingly personal narrative of alienation and ultimately redemption. <br /><br />Ross Raisin confirms himself as an exciting talent a unique gifted and generous voice a young writer with a vision broad far beyond his years. --David Vann <em>Financial Times</em><br />