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Wild and distant seas : a novel / Tara Karr Roberts.
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed--but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out. One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781324064886 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 285 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
- Copyright: ©2024
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| Subject: | Magic > Fiction. Sailors > Fiction. Whaling > Fiction. Widows > Fiction. Nantucket Island (Mass.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Magic realist fiction. Novels. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | FIC Rober | 31681010355303 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed-but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out. One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain"-- - Baker & Taylor
An outsider in Nantucketâs small, close-knit community in 1849, Evangeline Hussey, after her husband is lost at sea, makes choices that ripple through generations, across continents and into the depths of the ocean as she and her descendants seek to chart their own futures. - WW Norton
Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the islandâs small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she neededâbut now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift to glimpse and re-form the recent memories of those who would cast her out.One night, an idealistic sailor appears on her doorstep asking her to call him Ishmael. He seeks only a warm bed and a bowl of chowder, and yet suddenly, unsettlingly, her careful illusion begins to fracture. He soon sails away with Ahab to hunt an infamous white whale, and Evangeline is left to forge a new life from the pieces that remain.Wild and Distant SeasMoby-Dick - WW Norton
A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to chart their own futures.
