![]() ![]() ![]() The sun caught the wet rubber and made a point of fire on it. I watched the flash and lift of her arm as it came out of the water, and the arc of ripples that pushed along in front of her bathing cap. ![]() In some fiction from that time period the love story intrudes and annoys contemporary readers, but Sloane wasn’t one to get sappy, keeping it at a low-boil and sometimes finding charming ways of portraying it: Parts of The Edge of Running Water follow the trajectory of typical commercial fiction of the 1930s and 1940s, including a rather sweet romance between Richard and Anne. But Blair is adamant and Sayles and Anne are left to contend with the locals, already put off by the outsider with strange ways, now outraged by the suspicious death of one of their own, a woman who had been Blair’s housekeeper. Unable to find previously recorded empirical evidence for the existence of life after death, Blair has done his own research and with information from Sayles his work reaches its final stages.ĭrawn into his mentor’s apparent insanity, Sayles and Blair’s young sister-in-law, Anne, try to deflect Blair from his course. Years later, after leaving his position and secluding himself, he summons his friend and former protégé, Richard Sayles, to Setauket Point in Maine to tap into Sayles background in investigating the electric currents of the brain. ![]() When middle-aged electrophysicist Julian Blair loses his young wife, Helen, he cannot bear that he will never see her again and delves into dangerous research. ![]()
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