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Barcode30293101831498
LocationClark County
Call NoF Gaig
TitleSea wife / Amity Gaige.
AuthorGaige, Amity, 1972- author.
CollectionF
Total Circ1
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101831498F Gaig7/8/2020 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780525656494 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0525656499 (hardcover)
Personal Name Gaige, Amity, 1972- author.
Title Statement Sea wife / Amity Gaige.
Edition Statement First Edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
Physical Description 267 pages : map ; 25 cm.
General Note "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
General Note Maps on end pages.
Summary, Etc. "Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea. Despite the stresses of being novice sailors, the family learns to crew the boat together on the ever-changing sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve - until they are tested by the unforeseen. Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliet's first person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the life-changing events that unfolded at sea, and Michael's captain's log, which provides a riveting, slow-motion account of these same inexorable events, a dialogue that reveals the fault lines created by personal history and political divisions."-- Publisher description.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Survival at sea Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Married people Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Ocean travel Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Parenthood Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Families Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Sailing Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Sea fiction.

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