About the Author
A. MANETTE ANSAY is the author of five novels, including Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club Selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as a short-story collection, Read This and Tell Me What It Says, and a memoir, Limbo. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Pushcart Prize, the Nelson Algren Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards. She lives with her husband and daughter in Florida, where she teaches in the MFA program at the University of Miami.
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ALSO BY A. MANETTE ANSAY
Vinegar Hill
Read This and Tell Me What It Says
Sister
River Angel
Midnight Champagne
Limbo: A Memoir
Credits
Cover design by Mary Schuck
Cover photograph by Alfred Gerscheidt/Getty
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
BLUE WATER. Copyright © 2006 by A. Manette Ansay. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this bAll 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-books.
EPub © Edition MARCH 2006 ISBN: 9780061343742
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