Upon turning eighteen, Esther the Black looks for a chance to escape from her hated and dying grandmother, Esther the White, who lives in seclusion on Long Island, where each summer her son, Philip, tries to kill himself by walking into the ocean.
- ISBN10 0451178157
- ISBN13 9780451178152
- Publish Date 26 August 1993 (first published 22 June 1979)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
- Imprint New American Library
- Format Paperback
- Pages 10
- Language English