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Wild and distant seas : a novel / Tara Karr Roberts.

Roberts, Tara Karr, (author.).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781324064886
  • ISBN: 1324064889
  • Physical Description: 285 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024].
Subject: Widows > Fiction.
Whaling > Fiction.
Sailors > Fiction.
Magic > Fiction.
Nantucket Island (Mass.) > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 12 of 38 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Brown Library System.

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  • 3 current holds with 38 total copies.
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George H. & Laura E. Brown Library F Rob (Text) 30308101338326 Adult New Fiction Checked out 03/27/2024

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