The North Water: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize - Rilegato

Ian McGuire

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ISBN 10: 1471151247 ISBN 13: 9781471151248

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster UK, 2016

Riassunto

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN NOTABLE BOOK 2016 A ship sets sail with a killer on board . . . 1859. A man joins a whaling ship bound for the Arctic Circle. Having left the British Army with his reputation in tatters, Patrick Sumner has little option but to accept the position of ship's surgeon on this ill-fated voyage. But when, deep into the journey, a cabin boy is discovered brutally killed, Sumner finds himself forced to act. Soon he will face an evil even greater than he had encountered at the siege of Delhi, in the shape of Henry Drax: harpooner, murderer, monster . . . 'A tour de force' Hilary Mantel 'Riveting and darkly brilliant' Colm Toibin

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'Brilliant. A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world where 'why?' is not a question and murder happens on a whim; but where a faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world' --Hilary Mantel

'A novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid and insidiously witty, The North Water is a startling achievement' --Martin Amis

L'autore

Ian McGuire grew up near Hull and studied at the University of Manchester and the University of Virginia, USA. He is the founder and co-director of the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. His stories have been published in the Chicago Review, Paris Review and elsewhere, and his first novel was Incredible Bodies. The North Water is his second novel.

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1471151247
• ISBN 13: 9781471151248
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 336