She repeatedly imagines seeing him outside of the car, or that she feels the car shaking as he tries to get her out. Kelly, badly injured and delirious, continually imagines that he will come back to "save" her, and also that he has gone for help. Kelly tries to hold on to him to pull herself free he kicks her, leaving his shoe in her hand. The car sinks passenger side-down.Īt this point, The Senator uses Kelly's body to jettison himself upwards, out of the driver's side door. The reader later finds that, had he made the turn, the car probably would have fallen into the water a short distance down the road at an old bridge. The Senator is drunk and takes the "old" Ferry Road instead of the "new" one he is driving recklessly and drives directly through a guardrail into a marsh. As she packs her bags, Buffy tries to convince her not to go or to go later but Kelly thinks that this is a once-in-a-lifetime chance and goes with him, despite the fact that he has been drinking and that she is not entirely sure that she is "ready" for any sort of relationship. The Senator follows Kelly to the beach where he kisses her, and then invites her to come to his hotel with him on the ferry. He immediately is interested in her sexually he pays attention solely to her as the party drags on, and they discuss their common political beliefs. Ray has invited "The Senator" about whom Kelly wrote her graduate thesis. ![]() ![]() She is planning to stay with them for the weekend. The book opens with Elizabeth Anne "Kelly" Kelleher in a car that is plunging into mucky, swampy, "black water." The reader learns of the events that led up to the accident in flashbacks as the protagonist is drowning: Kelly Kelleher attends a Fourth of July party hosted by her friend Buffy St. ![]() The novella was a 1993 Pulitzer Prize finalist for fiction. senator Ted Kennedy crashed a car and caused the death by drowning of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne. It is a roman à clef based on the Chappaquiddick incident, in which U.S. Black Water is a 1992 novella by the American writer and professor Joyce Carol Oates.
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