A Hole in the Ocean is McIntosh’s unforgettable portrait of the Hamptons before it became myth—an apprenticeship among artists, eccentrics, and visionaries. With humor, candor, and a keen eye for human oddity, he captures a vanished world of creative risk and wild possibility. A perfect pick for readers who love literary memoir with bite.
“Sandy McIntosh’s A Hole in the Ocean bends time as though on a Möbius band, the fiction of the “actual” running into, over and around the real of the “imagined.” His sweet, affecting memoir of the late 20th-century Hamptons art and poetry scene wraps effortlessly into the latter pages in which McIntosh dreams the works of Hemingway, Goethe, and a host of other writers. His “hole” is a mid-ocean maelstrom, both gentle and turbulent, swirling present, past and future in its serio-comic depths.”
–Michael Heller
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