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Jones, Ben

 
9780385509770: The Rope Eater
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ISBN 10: 0385509774 ISBN 13: 9780385509770
Editorial: Doubleday, 2003

Sinopsis

Fleeing the horrors of the Civil War by deserting, Brendan Kane experiences New York City's draft riots and joins the oddball crew of the Narthex, an oddly shaped vessel, unaware that the ship's intended destination isa mythic temperate paradise in the heart of the Arctic ice. A first novel.

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Acerca del autor

Ben Jones majored in English at Yale University and was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was an editor for the Adventure Library, where he edited classic tales of exploration. Jones lives with his wife and two daughters in Paris.

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A voyage of Arctic exploration during the American Civil War becomes an epic tale of madness and survival in a stunning first novel animated by the spirits of Poe, Crane, Conrad, and Melville.

Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860s New England. Fired by a speech given by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts, drifting north to experience the draft riots in New York and, finally, to meet his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town. Kane signs up as a crew member without any inkling of the voyage s destination or goals, joining a crew of odd outcasts not unlike that of the Pequod, including one Aziz, the three-handed Muslim engine tender, and Dr. Architeuthis, the ship s scientist whose mania for data becomes increasingly indistinguishable from madness. While at sea, they come to learn that their goal is a mythic temperate valley, a paradise in the heart of the Arctic?a goal their captain and the Narthex s owner will stop at nothing to reach.

At once spiritual, adventurous, and bleak, The Rope Eater displays a precise knowledge of the period and the customs of nineteenth century Arctic exploration. In its scope and rich language, it recalls the work of the great novelists of inner and outer voyaging?a tremendous debut novel.

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Editorial
Doubleday
Año de publicación
2003
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0385509774
ISBN 13 
9780385509770
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