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The porpoise : a novel
- Title
- The porpoise : a novel / Mark Haddon.
- Author
- Haddon, Mark, 1962-
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-10464 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Description
- 317 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "'I really am so very, very sorry about this, ' he says, in an oddly formal voice ... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail ... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Mythological fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Sea fiction.
- Adaptations.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10464
- ISBN
- 9781784742829
- 9781784742836
- 1784742821
- 178474283X
- LCCN
- 2018047987
- OCLC
- 1101197013
- Author
- Haddon, Mark, 1962- author.
- Title
- The porpoise : a novel / Mark Haddon.
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Added Author
- Novelization of (work) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10464