The Seal Wife: A Novel
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品牌: Kathryn Harrison
基本信息出版社:Random House Trade Paperbacks (2003年5月13日)平装:248页正文语种:英语ISBN:081296845X条形码:9780812968453商品尺寸:13.2 x 1.3 x 20.3 cm商品重量:181 g品牌:Random House Trade PaperbacksASIN:081296845X商品描述内容简介For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak.
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche—a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face.专业书评“Mesmerizing...harrowing in its emotional intensity, haunting in its evocation of a distant time and place.” —Michiko Kakutani,The New York Times
“Superb, perfect, one might even say—soaring.” —The Seattle Times
“Lyrical passages...reads like profound poetry...the most enterprising and successful portrait of a man in heat by a female writer since Joyce Carol Oates’ tumultuously orgasmicWhat I Lived For.” —Alan Cheuse,Chicago Tribune
“Intricately wrought...Harrison imbues her solitary silence with a stately air of self-possession.” —Maria Russo,The New York Times Book Review
“This...mesmerizing tale is dizzying in intensity; its startling story twists are borne along by prose as austere and powerful as Alaska’s icescape. The novel’s undertow of anguish will resonate with anyone who has tried to make sense of desire....Chilled to perfection.” —People
