Violet Rose
The Encroaching Sea
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1968
The house was bouncing on the water like a child's toy in a bathtub. But, this was no porcelain tub with warm tap water. It was the Atlantic Ocean and it was cold, being September and hurricane season.
From the deck of a small stilt house planted in the sand, on Dune Road, Westhampton Beach, on New York's Long Island, Violet could see, through the early evening clouds and waves the color of steel, the top of a gray shingled home from the bay side that had been dislodged by the churning water. It was drifting, shifting up and down, headed out to sea.
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About the Book
Violet Rose is the first book in The Rose Trilogy, which is set on the East End of Long Island in a resort town on the East End. The palpable animosity between summer visitor and local resident is vividly depicted.
The ocean itself is a metaphor for the love/hate turbulence in the lives of the characters. They encounter danger and lust. Malevolent storms beset them, both in tempests of weather and anguish of heart as the encroaching sea sweeps across their world.
About the Author
Elizabeth Cooke, born and bred in New York City, graduate of Vassar College and the Sorbonne, is the author of a memoir and several books about Paris, two of which won awards at the Paris Book Festival in 2015 and 2016. “Violet Rose” is the first book in ‘The Rose Trilogy’, set on the East End of Long Island, where she lived for over 30 years.