Untying the Moon: A Novel (Story River Books), by Ellen Malphrus
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Bailey Martin is in perpetual motion--a child of the South Carolina lowcountry tides, being pulled to and from a reckoning with destiny. A marine biologist by training and an artist by dedication and talent, Bailey is a woman of contradictions, at once a free-spirited adventurer giving deeply of herself to environmental causes and familial loyalties but also consumed by primal, isolating appetites and dangerous attractions. Restless and troubled, Bailey chafes at her existence, becoming uneasy in her success, her life, and her own skin. Untying the Moon, the debut novel from southern storyteller Ellen Malphrus, is a vibrant tale of self-discovery, approaching the realms of myth and lore as readers ride shotgun with Bailey in Blue Ruby, her '67 Skylark convertible, from Manhattan down the eastern seaboard, from coastal Carolina to the Alaskan wilderness and back again, all in search of the embrace of love and--finally--of home.When Bailey trades the freedom of the road for a relationship with Padgett Turner, a Vietnam veteran haunted by his past, she finds the compelling possibility of settling into one place and one relationship. But the weight of Padgett's emotional scars is too much for either to bear, even together. As Padgett's darkness escalates, a moment of horrific violence pulls Bailey homeward to the Jericho River of Kirk's Bluff, South Carolina--a river of dolphins, dreams, and portents. In her lifelong friendship with neighbor Ben Simmons and under the sheltering gaze of her fisherman father, Cecil, and Ben's parents, George and Retta, Bailey uncovers the healing connections she had been seeking elsewhere and earns her chance at the truest prize of all--a balance between her dedication to her inner life and responsibilities to the outer world.Recalling the writings of James Dickey, Jack Kerouac, Jack London, Pat Conroy, Mary Alice Monroe, and Lee Smith, Untying the Moon explores the redemptive powers of home, nature, creation, and storytelling itself. With prose that ebbs and flows from the lyrical and lush to the staccato and sparse, Malphrus's novel is rich with classical allusions and regional folklore, the enrapturing beauty of its settings, a racially and geographically diverse charismatic cast, and all the mystery and magic of fate.New York Times best-selling writer and Story River Books editor at large Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the novel.
Untying the Moon: A Novel (Story River Books), by Ellen Malphrus- Amazon Sales Rank: #501633 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.50" h x .90" w x 6.80" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 182 pages
Review "[Malphrus] is in full control of her craft, offering the reader a sound story, told by a voice poetically clear.... A masterful first novel."--Southern Literary Review"Untying the Moon is a beautifully written first novel, with settings that feel lived in, a nice eye for detail, and a story that's simple but evocative. Ellen Malphrus describes herself as a 'southern storyteller,' and her work is a fine example of that literary tradition."--Foreword Reviews"Rare are those works that breathe and exhale a Southern air with a naturalness neither contrived nor necessarily even conscious. Lowcountry poet Ellen Malphrus has gifted the reader...[with this in] her debut novel, Untying the Moon. and its mesmeric, bafflingly honest, and frustratingly contradictory center, Bailey Martin."--Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier"This wonderful novel builds beautifully as a young woman, Bailey, makes her way down the East Coast in her beloved car Blue Ruby. The imagery is vividly alive and the ever-changing setting becomes a character, setting the tone for the book's journeys of distance and spirit. The ebb and flow of Ellen Malphrus's lyrical language resembles the movement of the ocean and rivers in Bailey's life. The story is wonderfully layered and masterfully crafted, making for a fine literary novel and truly a treasure to read."--Ann Hite, author of Where the Souls Go and Lowcountry Spirit"The dolphin-haunted Carolina coast of Ellen Malphrus's masterful, lyrical novel Untying the Moon brings us deeply into the natural wonders of the Lowcountry. Like the adventurous and near-mythical wandering heroine Bailey Martin, readers will not be able to resist the magnetic pull of Malphrus's loving depictions of the landscape, its marvelous inhabitants--both human and animal alike--and its welcoming embrace that always and truly feels like coming home."--New York Times best-selling author Mary Alice Monroe"Untying the Moon introduces an exciting new voice in Southern fiction. Ellen Malphrus's kinetic heroine Bailey Martin takes the reader on an eventful,at times bumpy, ride across the continent in a search, ultimately, for the road that leads home."--Ron Rash"Ellen Malphrus' enchanting Bailey Martin was conceived and born in water, and she carries the birthmark of the South Carolina lowlands with her wherever she goes. Bailey, like memorable American literary characters before her, is in motion, lighting out for the territory ahead. As she follows the twists and turns of rivers and ocean shorelines, Bailey must also navigate the convoluted and changing course of her heart. This is a novel about the incomprehensible contradictions and consequences of love and violence. Malphrus' lush, lyrical language is wedded to her witty yet generous and wise sensibility that hovers over every page. Untying the Moon shapes a sensuous world both magical and very real, a geographical and emotional environment that the reader will never forget."--Allen Wier, author of Tehano: A Novel"This is a book in which the writing and the writer are one. Ellen Malphrus is in full control of her craft. Her story is sound, her voice clear and melodic, her perceptions keen, and her characters sharply defined and vital. Untying the Moon is a literary experience of considerable merit, one to be savored and remembered."--N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of House Made of Dawn"It's a delight to make the literary acquaintance of Ellen Malphrus. Her writing is both assured and fresh, grounded in the rich traditions of Southern literature and yet utterly contemporary. Her language is exuberant, her contemplations moving. She's a great observer of women's lives and no slouch with portraits of men either. Untying the Moon predicts the start of a long, rich career."--Valerie Sayers, author of Due East and The Powers
About the Author Ellen Malphrus lives and writes in her native Carolina lowcountry and southwest Montana. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in Southern Literary Journal, Review of Contemporary Fiction, William and Mary Review, Georgia Poetry Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, and the anthology Essence of Beaufort and the Lowcountry. She was a student of James Dickey and teaches at the University of South Carolina Beaufort.A 2009 inductee in the South Carolina Hall of Fame, Pat Conroy is the author of five novels and a total of ten previous books, most recently The Death of Santini. Two of his novels, The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides, were made into Oscar-nominated films.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Lyrical and Beautiful By claire ford fullerton Like silk torn through with shards of glass, this book has a dreamy, sensuous quality interspersed with bursts of glaring reality. Just as I became accustomed to Ellen Malphrus’ lyrical turn of a phrase, “Untying the Moon” explodes with raw energy from the restless spirit of its main character, Bailey Martin, as she seeks to lead an unconventional life, yet is ultimately pulled towards home. When we first meet Bailey, she is outrunning another broken romance and has taken to the open road in her 1967 Buick Skylark with what appears to be a loose plan. She is responsible for and beholden to no one, save for her love of the sea. With descriptions that intuit far more than the eye can see, Bailey’s journey from New York to Maine to Florida to South Carolina is actually an inner exploration that feels like the reconciliation of opposites in a time frame that links the present and past. This is a book so beautifully crafted that one has to reach through its poetry to glimpse its sheer intelligence; its story unfolds in rolling tides that spoke to me of a longing for connection that leads straight to the discovery that what was sought had been there all along. I loved this beautiful book for the strength and honest vulnerability of its main character, as well as for its visual descriptions and artful language. It is an unpredictable story uncommonly told, and I will be recommending it to my friends.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. She shares her sense of place - the low country of South Carolina she knows intimately - with the most evocative language I've e By Katherine G Lang When a poet takes to the novel, she doesn't leave the poetry behind. At least, this poet, Ellen Malphrus, doesn't. She shares her sense of place - the low country of South Carolina she knows intimately - with the most evocative language I've ever read about this startling and startlingly beautiful piece of the south. Add to this a main character who, like Aeneas, is a compulsive wanderer, but, unlike Aeneas, is a young woman, and you have a very satisfying reading experience.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This book is beautifully written, a pleasure to read By Jules Russell This book is beautifully written, a pleasure to read. The landscape of rivers, salt marshes, maritime forests, and islands are so well described that I fell like I've been there. Malphrus heightens all the senses, every page packed with the poetic devastation of a lobster roll or the tranquility of a sleeping dolphin floating effortlessly down the Jerico River. I immediately fell in love with Bailey Martin, she's in constant motion, at times larger than life, yet still vulnerable.
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