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ISBN13: 9781934137925
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
Published: Jun 2 2015
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
In Irish novelist Cormac James's vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing (Colum McCann) North American debut, a ship's lieutenant discovers a stowaway, pregnant with his child, while battling crushing Arctic ice
An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. . . . Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding. --John Boyne
Far from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin's recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and courage to lead his men across a bleak expanse as shifting, stubborn, and treacherous as human nature itself.
A harrowing tale of psychological fortitude against impossible odds, The Surfacing is also a beautifully told story of one man's transformative journey toward fatherhood.
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