All Wingos share one heritage...shrimp fishing, poverty and the searing memory of a single terrifying event - the source of Tom Wingo's self-hatred and of his sister Savannah's suicidal despair. To save himself and Savannah, Tom confronts the past with the help of New York psychologist Susan Lowenstein. As Tom and Susan unravel the bitter history of his troubled childhood, in episodes of grotesque humour, poignant lyricism and shattering violence, the door opens vividly onto a world peopled by a cast of colourful, eccentric and unforgettable characters.
- ISBN10 0553404849
- ISBN13 9780553404845
- Publish Date 16 January 1992 (first published 21 October 1986)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 October 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 672
- Language English