Catherine McCormack
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Jan 1, 1997 · 28,758 ratings1,945 reviews. Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here. A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational ax murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. (Can you guess which one?)
Nov 1, 2002 · The Weight Of Water. Roger Ebert November 01, 2002. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. "The Weight of Water" tells two stories of family jealousy, separated by more than a century and heightened by lurid melodrama, bloody murder, incest and storms at sea.
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Jan 7, 1998 · The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of New Hampshire, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses herself in the details of the case--an outburst of passion that resulted in the deaths of two women--Jean herself enters precarious emotional territory.
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Jan 5, 2012 · The Weight of Water is a startlingly original piece of fiction. A brilliant coming-of-age story, it also tackles the alienation experienced by many young immigrants. Moving, unsentimental, and utterly page-turning, we meet and share the experiences of a remarkable girl who shows us how quiet courage prevails.
The Weight of Water. Summaries. A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal. In 1873 on Smutty Nose Island, a bleak island off the coast of New England, Louis Wagner is tried and hanged for the murder of two women.
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Jan 5, 2012 · The Weight of Water is a startlingly original piece of fiction; most simply a brilliant coming of age story, it also tackles the alienation experienced by many young immigrants. Moving,...
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Jul 23, 2013 · Until a new boy swims into her life, and she learns that there might be more than one way to stay afloat.The Weight of Water is a coming-of-age story that deftly handles issues of...
