This Child's Gonna Live - Sarah E. Wright

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This Child's Gonna Live, Sarah E. Wright, 1969, United States, NOVEL

"...Neighbors attack and gossip, hurling words in their own hopeless frustration at trying to make a living out of the used-up land and oyster beds of Tangierneck, Maryland: "Wonder was that it hadn't all washed away, the way that big, wide, bossy, ocean-going Nighaskin River keeps pouring water down into the mouth of the Neck until Deep Gut swallows all it can hold and backs the rest of it out for the ocean."...Sarah E. Wright describes a horrible reality in stunning, beautiful, almost surreal language; her novel burns in your mind like the hallucinations of a fever."

(E.B., p. 304)