Signals of Distress

Jim Crace

ISBN 10: 0374263795 / ISBN 13: 9780374263799

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995

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Signals of Distress tells the story of an American emigration vessel grounded off the coast of England in the 1830's While the Belle of Wilmington waits to be refloated, the isolated community of Wherrytown offers what hospitality it can to the crew, but the Americans prove to be a disturbing presence A brilliantly imagined historical fiction about emigration, dislocation, and the price of liberty, this novel confirms Crace's reputation as a writer who is gifted almost beyond belief.

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• Titre: Signals of Distress
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date de parution: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374263795
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374263799
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
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Présentation de l'éditeur

November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American steamer off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and an innful of rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a ship from London, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the American slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. Chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the best books of 1995, Signals of Distress, Jim Crace's fourth novel, once again displays the author's gift for inventing richly strange and believable worlds that uncannily foretell our own.