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Item Details
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BRIGHT AND DISTANT SHORES
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Dominic Smith |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£6.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1439198888 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781439198889 |
| Publisher: |
ATRIA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
13 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
480 |
| Description: |
"Washington Square Press fiction original trade"--T.p. verso. |
| Synopsis: |
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger for tribal artifacts, spawning collecting voyages from museums and collectors around the globe. In 1897, one such collector, a Chicago insurance magnate, sponsors an expedition into the South Seas to commemorate the completion of his company's new skyscraper--the world's tallest building. The ship is to bring back an array of Melanesian weaponry and handicrafts, but also several natives related by blood. Caught up in this scheme are two orphans-Owen Graves, an itinerant trader from Chicago's South Side who has recently proposed to the girl he must leave behind, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy in the New Hebrides who longs to be reunited with his sister. At the cusp of the twentieth century, the expedition forces a collision course between the tribal and the civilized, between two young men plagued by their respective and haunting pasts. An epic and ambitious story that brings to mind E. L. Doctorow, with echoes of Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, Bright and Distant Shores is a wondrous achievement by a writer known for creating compelling fiction from the fabric of history. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Atria Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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