Bibliograph

Wild and distant seas, a novel, Tara Karr Roberts

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Wild and distant seas, a novel, Tara Karr Roberts

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Wild and distant seas

Oclc number

1413970981

Responsibility statement

Tara Karr Roberts

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"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

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