An edition of The Seas (2004)

The seas

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An edition of The Seas (2004)

The seas

novel

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Ever since her father walked into the ocean eleven years ago, a young woman waits for him to return. Life in her coastal town is decidedly bleak. Her mother spends her time quietly monitoring the ocean for her missing husband. Her grandfather passes the days typesetting dictionaries that will never be printed. Rather than suffer the contortions of becoming a woman and accepting her father's apparent suicide, the narrator convinces herself she is a mermaid and escapes her dreary, northern town life via a fantastic myth. When not chambermaiding at decrepit motels or dreaming of becoming a scientist, she dedicates her time to falling obsessively in love with Jude, a drinker and a sailor twice her age who bears more than a passing similarity to her father. She knows Jude has a troubling secret that will, when revealed, help to fulfill the narrator's peculiar sense of her identity. Part modern gothic, part coming-of-age story, The Seas explores the very real possibilities in the unreal, straddling the horizons between the ocean and the land, literature and science, wishing and reality.

Publish Date
Publisher
MacAdam/Cage Pub.
Language
English
Pages
192

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Cover of: Seas
Seas
2019, Tin House Books, LLC
in English
Cover of: Seas
Seas
2019, Tin House Books, LLC
in English
Cover of: Seas
Seas
2018, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: The Seas
The Seas
Jul 10, 2018, Tin House Books
hardcover
Cover of: Seas
Seas
2010, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
in English
Cover of: The Seas
The Seas
2009, M P Publishing Limited
E-book in English
Cover of: The Seas
The Seas: A Novel
December 27, 2005, Picador
Paperback in English
Cover of: The seas
The seas: novel
2004, MacAdam/Cage Pub.
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
San Francisco

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3608.U585 S43 2004

The Physical Object

Pagination
192 p. ;
Number of pages
192

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3294225M
ISBN 10
1931561850
LCCN
2004014851
OCLC/WorldCat
55797842
Library Thing
596713
Goodreads
2177880

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