The Seal Wife: A Novel

Author: Harrison, Kathryn

Publication:New York : Random House, 2002-04-01

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition

Condition: Used: Very Good

Description: No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. first edition, first printing; light edge wear to boards and jacket; Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist’s consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage. But what could have prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town with more than two thousand men and only a handful of women, or for winter nights twenty hours long? And what can protect him from obsession—obsession with a woman who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and obsession with the weather kite he invents, a kite he hopes will fly higher than any has ever flown before and will penetrate the secrets of the heavens?

Ref#: 058542

Subject: General Fiction

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