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Author:
Roberts, Tara Karr, author.
Title:
Wild and distant seas : a novel / Tara Karr Roberts.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
W.W. Norton & Company,
Copyright Date:
2024
Description:
285 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Widows--Fiction.
Whaling--Fiction.
Sailors--Fiction.
Magic--Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
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.
ISBN:
1324064889
9781324064886
LCCN:
bl2023177899
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
XBPE737 -- Lied Public Library - Clarinda (Clarinda)
DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)
TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
TFPI826 -- Scott County Library System (Eldridge)
JSPB572 -- Ely Public Library (Ely)
S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)
LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)
GPPC641 -- Gutekunst Public Library (State Center)
GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)
SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

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