| International Standard Book Number |
9781324064886 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1324064889 (hardcover)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.6 23/eng/20231211
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| Personal Name |
Roberts, Tara Karr, author. aut
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| Title Statement |
Wild and distant seas : a novel / Tara Karr Roberts.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Wild & distant seas
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2024
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024]
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| Physical Description |
285 pages ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Associated Place |
Setting: Nantucket Island (Mass.) naf stg
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 Characters Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sailors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Widows Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Widows Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Magic Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Magic Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Memory Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sea stories Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Veuves Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Whaling Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Whaling Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Baleines Romans, nouvelles, etc. Chasse
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Marins Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Nantucket Island (Mass.) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Nantucket Island (Mass.) Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Nantucket (Mass. : ãIle) Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Magic realist fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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