**From the author of the *New York Times* bestselling novels *The Handmaids Tale*now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original seriesand *Alias Grace*, now a Netflix original series.** Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, *Surfacing* is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in s
The Surfacing
✍ Scribed by Cormac James
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 209 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
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"Gratifyingly defies expectations." --New York Times Book Review
"[A] harrowing Arctic adventure." --Oprah.com
"An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. . . . Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding." --JOHN BOYNE , author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A History of Loneliness
"The great topic of Cormac James' The Surfacing is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing. James is attuned to the psychological moment: this is a book about fatherhood and all its attendant terrors. It's a remarkable achievement." --COLUM McCANN , author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic
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