Name: afterlands
SKU: 4328678
Price: 921.00 TWD
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Author: Heighton, Steven
ISBN: 9780618773411

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Author

Steven Heighton

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

406

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.9x14x2.7 cm

Weight

0.47 kg.

ISBN13

9780618773411

Synopsis "afterlands"

In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in the Arctic, struggling to survive both the harsh elements and one another. As the group splinters into factions along ethnic and national lines, rivalries -- complicated by sexual desire, unrequited love, extreme hunger, and suspicion -- begin to turn violent. Steven Heighton's provocative novel fills in the blanks of the Polaris's documented history and explores the shattering emotional and psychological consequences faced by those who survive.

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