February - Couverture souple

Moore, Lisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0701184906 ISBN 13 : 9780701184902

Editeur : Chatto & Windus, 2010

Synopsis

In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died.

Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. Her story starts years after the Ranger disaster, but she is compelled to travel back to the 'February' that persists in her mind, and to that moment in 1982 when, expecting a fourth child, she received the call informing her that Cal was lost at sea.

A quarter of a century on, late one winter's night, Helen is woken by another phone call. It is her wayward son John, in another time zone, on his way home. He has made a girl pregnant and he wants Helen to decide what he should do. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen realises that she must shake off her decades of mourning in order to help.

With grace and precision, and a shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore reveals the whole story to us. And just as, finally, we watch the oil rig go down, we see Helen emerging from her grief to greet a new life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of February, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, selected as one of the New Yorker’s Best Books of the Year, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and winner of Canada Reads 2013. Her short story collection Open was a finalist for the Giller Prize, as was her first novel Alligator, which also won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, and was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. Caught was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. She lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatto & Windus
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0701184906
• ISBN 13: 9780701184902
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible