Authors: Anne Rivers Siddons

Outer Banks (45 page)

About the Author

Anne Rivers Siddons
has written fifteen bestselling novels, including
Outer Banks, Colony,
and
Up Island,
which are available from HarperCollins e-books.

Books by Anne Rivers Siddons

Critical Acclaim for
Anne Rivers Siddons and Her Books

“Anne Rivers Siddonsâ¦ranks among the best of us and delivers the goodsâthe whole fabulous packageâwith every book she writes.”

âPat Conroy

“One doesn't read Anne Rivers Siddons books, one dwells in them.”

âChicago Tribune

“Anne Rivers Siddons establishes herself in the front ranks of Southern writersâ¦. While there are hints of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williamsâ¦Siddons is her own woman.”

âLos Angeles Times Book Review

“Excellentâ¦. Scarlett O'Hara's âtomorrow' has come to the South and Anne Rivers Siddons has written the quintessential account of its arrivalâ¦. An intricate blend of truth and imaginationâ¦with wonderful, lyrical prose that sweeps and sings and soars.”

âPublishers Weekly

“Mesmerizing, enthralling, and totally unforgettable.”

âChattanooga News-Free Press

“Like Faulkner and Conroy, the author calmly manipulates the reader, unfurling familial horrors with just the right degree of psychic tension.”

âMiami Herald

“Siddons's way of delving into a character's psyche is deeply satisfying.”

âDenver Post

Credits

Cover illustration by Greg Harlin/Wood Ronsaville Harlin Inc.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to quote from copyrighted material:

Speak Memory
by Vladimir Nabokov. Copyright 1970 by Vladimir Nabokov. Used by permission of The Putnam Publishing Group.

T. S. Eliot, The Complete Poems and Plays
1909â1950 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1950, 1943, 1939, 1930 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright 1952, 1936, 1935 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Copyright renewed 1963, 1962, 1958 by T. S. Eliot. Copyright renewed 1980, 1978, 1971, 1967 by Esme Valerie Eliot. Used by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

The Poetry of Robert Frost
by Robert Frost. Copyright 1969 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. Copyright 1916 by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. Used by permission of Henry Holt & Co.

Ulysses
by James Joyce. Copyright 1934 by Modern Library. Copyright renewed 1961 by Lucia Joyce and George Joyce. Used by permission of Random House.

The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran. Copyright 1923 by Kahlil Gibran. Renewal copyright 1951 by Administrators C.T.A. of Kahlil Gibran Estate and Mary G. Gibran. Used by permission of Random House.

Poems of Dylan Thomas
, by Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1945 by the Trustees for the copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

The Portable Dorothy Parker
by Dorothy Parker. Copyright 1944 by Dorothy Parker. Used by permission of Penguin U.S.A.

“While We're Young” by Haven Gillespie and J. Fred Coots. Used by permission of Toy Town Tunes.

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1991 by HarperCollins Publishers.

OUTER BANKS.
Copyright Â© 1991 by Anne Rivers Siddons. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-booksâ¢.

ePub edition October 2003 eISBN 9780061748776

First Perennial edition published 2003.

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