The North Water - Couverture rigide

McGuire, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1471151247 ISBN 13 : 9781471151248

Editeur : Scribner, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

A 19th-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.
Behold the man: stinking, drunk, brutal and bloodthirsty, Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaling ship bound for the hunting waters of the Arctic Circle. Also aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money and no better option than to embark as ship's medic on this violent, filthy, ill-fated voyage.
In India during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which a man can stoop and imagined he'd find respite on the Volunteer, but now, trapped in the wooden belly of the ship with Drax, he encounters pure evil and is forced to act. As the true purposes of the expedition become clear, the confrontation between the two men plays out in the freezing darkness of an Arctic winter.

Revue de presse :

'Brilliant. A fast-paced, gripping story set in a world where "why?" is not a question and murder happens on a whim; but where a faint ray of grace and hope lights up the landscape of salt and blood and ice. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world that seems to exist at the limits of the human imagination' Hilary Mantel 'This is a novel that takes us to the limits of flesh and blood. Utterly convincing and compelling, remorselessly vivid, and insidiously witty, The North Water is a startling achievement' Martin Amis

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Scribner
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1471151247
• ISBN 13: 9781471151248
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336