Whale fall
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
Format
Book
ISBN
9780593700914 (HRD), 0593700910 (HRD)
Status
Copies
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library - New Book | FICTION O'CONNOR | Available Soon |
Scarsdale Public Library - On Order | ACQ171093 | On Order |
White Plains Public Library - New Book | FICTION | Available Soon |
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Published
New York : Pantheon Books, 2024.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780593700914 (HRD), 0593700910 (HRD)
Notes
Description
"In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations. The arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture, then, feels like a boon to her--both a glimpse of life outside her community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay,the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized. With shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, Whale Fall tells the story ofwhat happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipice, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on them"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
O'Connor, E. (2024). Whale fall . Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Connor, Elizabeth, 1991-. 2024. Whale Fall. Pantheon Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)O'Connor, Elizabeth, 1991-. Whale Fall Pantheon Books, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)O'Connor, Elizabeth. Whale Fall Pantheon Books, 2024.
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