The seal wife
a novel
by Kathryn Harrison and Harrison, Kathryn, author
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"Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist's consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.".
"Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage. But what could have prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town with more than two thousand men and only a handful of women, or for winter nights twenty hours long?
And what can protect him from obsession - obsession with a woman who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and obsession with the weather kite he invents, a kite he hopes will fly higher than any has ever flown before and will penetrate the secrets of the heavens?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Seal Wife, The
June 10, 2004, Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
MP3 CD
in English
- Unab MP3 edition
1593354045 9781593354046
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Seal Wife, The
June 10, 2004, Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD
MP3 CD
in English
- Unabridged edition
159335150X 9781593351502
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The Seal Wife: A Novel
May 13, 2003, Random House Trade Paperbacks
Paperback
in English
081296845X 9780812968453
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Seal Wife, The
June 15, 2002, Nova Audio Books
Audio Cassette
in English
- Abridged edition
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Seal Wife, The
April 29, 2002, Brilliance Audio Unabridged
Audio cassette
in English
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The Seal Wife
April 29, 2002, Brilliance Unabridged Library Edition
Audio Cassette
in English
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1590861469 9781590861462
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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.
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