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Afterlands Perfect Steven Heighton
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- Special Attributes
- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- HarperCollins Publishers
- ISBN
- 9780618773411
- Book Title
- Afterlands
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical
- Item Weight
- 13.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 432 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
061877341X
ISBN-13
9780618773411
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11038766821
Product Key Features
Book Title
Afterlands
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, Historical
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Fiction
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"A terrific read...Heighton excels in telling a tale of hardship, madness, love, loyalty, and sacrifice." --Irish Examiner, "Afterlands is a superb work of the imagination -- a blend of fact and fiction that is handled with grace and mastery. The shifting landscape of the narrative is perfectly paralleled by the shifting Arctic landscape and the wildly changing fate of the hapless souls trapped on the ice floe. This is Heighton at his best." --Helen Humphreys, bestselling author of The Lost Garden" "Afterlands is a sprawling adventure story, part epic of Arctic endurance, part Mex-western, a Lost in the Barrens meets The Magnificent Seven kind of book, with an unrequited love affair between a German seaman and an Inuit matron to add passion to an already passionate book. At the heart of Afterlands is an ambiguous hero, the disgraced German sailor Roland Kruger whose true-life bravery has inspired Heighton to create a complex, brooding, rebellious and mysteriously gentle central character. Afterlands is full of unforgettably dramatic moments: the tubercular Inuit girl Punie performing Mendelssohn in a New England concert hall, a gorgeous bear-bull fight in a Mexican plaza, and the long night when the men anchor their remaining whaleboat with their own bodies as the ice-floe sinks and frigid waves dash over them." --Douglas Glover, Governor General-winning author of Elle: A Novel Praise for Steven Heighton: "Steven Heighton is one of the finest writers in this country." --Barbara Gowdy, author of The Romantic "One of the best writers of his generation, maybe the best." --Al Purdy "He is like a young Ondaatje . . . a superb craftsman at ease in foreign places and distant times." --"The Globe and Mail "Heighton is a heavyweight . . . a master of realist narrative. Theresult is a genuine, hard-fought lyrical beauty that transcends fashion." --"The Vancouver Sun "A bravura performance, intense and poetic . . . The Shadow Boxer fizzes with life and energy, and has a swaggering, larger-than-life quality." --"Independent on Sunday (UK) "Fluid, rhythmical, full of force and grace, his sentences compel you to keep reading." --Wayne Johnston "Heighton is one of our most ambitious and prodigiously talented writers. . . . For those who roll their eyes at the prospect of another historical novel from a young CanLit star, rest assured that Heighton's purpose here is not to dazzle with research, but rather to find characters at the boundary points in history, those rare moments when the tectonic plates of different cultures grind against one another and threaten destruction." -"Quill & Quire "From the Hardcover edition., A big, ambitious literary adventure tale full of blood, gristle, and soul...Afterlands conveys in stark yet beautiful prose the awful reality of what happens both on the ice and in [the soul]., "Skillfully constructed, beautifully written, told with a detachment that will put the reader in mind of Graham Greene..." The Washington Post "A novel of big ideas and beautiful language. [Afterlands] is a magnificent novel..." The New York Times Book Review "Canadian novelist Heighton is an elegant writer, and the story he tells is gripping." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "This novel's scale, its delight in detail and its psychological insight make it an exceptionally satisfying adventure." Publishers Weekly "... ambitious successor to [Heighton's] excellent debut novel" Kirkus Reviews, "Superb...There's nail-biting adventure, unforgettable character studies, lessons about the resurgance of nationalism in today's post-9/11 world." --Ottawa Citizen, Compelling, vividly imagined, and written in rich and precise prose...But the real force of the book comes from the currents of history -- of young nations rising and ancient civilizations ebbing -- that run just below the surface., "Skillfully constructed, beautifully written...Afterlands is a superior example of a rare breed: the literary adventure story." --Book World, Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Globe & Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, and others, "Skillfully constructed, beautifully written, told with a detachment that will put the reader in mind of Graham Greene..." The Washington Post "A novel of big ideas and beautiful language. [Afterlands] is a magnificent novel..." The New York Times Book Review "Canadian novelist Heighton is an elegant writer, and the story he tells is gripping." St. Louis Post-Dispatch "This novel's scale, its delight in detail and its psychological insight make it an exceptionally satisfying adventure." Publishers Weekly "... ambitious successor to [Heighton's] excellent debut novel" Kirkus Reviews --, Terrific...this novel's scale, its delight in detail, and its psychological insight make it an exceptionally satisfying adventure., "Skillfully constructed, beautifully written...Afterlands is a superior example of a rare breed: the literary adventure story." --Book World The Washington Post "A big, ambitious literary adventure tale full of blood, gristle, and soul...Afterlands conveys in stark yet beautiful prose the awful reality of what happens both on the ice and in [the soul]." Guardian "A magnificent novel about the wreckage of history -- both the history that happens to us and the versions of it we create." The New York Times Book Review "A sophisticated, densley layered fictional exploration of survival, love, betrayal, adn the personal cost of history...a novel of big ideas and beautiful language." The New York Times Book Review "Compelling, vividly imagined, and written in rich and precise prose...But the real force of the book comes from the currents of history -- of young nations rising and ancient civilizations ebbing -- that run just below the surface." The Financial Times of London "Unforgettable...a big, wide, deep book...an intensely felt fiction." The Globe and Mail "A masterpiece, packed to the rafters with sumptuous language, sweeping vistas, contained fury, sorrow, and unrequited love." --Daily Express (UK) "A terrific read...Heighton excels in telling a tale of hardship, madness, love, loyalty, and sacrifice." --Irish Examiner "A wonderful, whiteout epic." Gentleman's Quarterly "A rich tale...a story of grand human passions...a subtle portrait of qualified heroism and ambiguous villainy." --Sunday Times (South Africa) "Superb...There's nail-biting adventure, unforgettable character studies, lessons about the resurgance of nationalism in today's post-9/11 world." --Ottawa Citizen "A shattering read." Men's Journal "[A] dramatic, visually stunning tour-de-force." Kirkus Reviews "Terrific...this novel's scale, its delight in detail, and its psychological insight make it an exceptionally satisfying adventure." Publishers Weekly Selected as a Best Book of the Year by Globe & Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, and others, "A masterpiece, packed to the rafters with sumptuous language, sweeping vistas, contained fury, sorrow, and unrequited love." --Daily Express (UK), "A rich tale...a story of grand human passions...a subtle portrait of qualified heroism and ambiguous villainy." --Sunday Times (South Africa)
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
In 1871 off the coast of Greenland, 19 men, women, and children, cast adrift on an ice floe from their foundering ship, the Arctic explorer Polaris, endured a six-month winter ordeal before finally being rescued the following spring. In Afterlands, Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event., In 1871 off the coast of Greenland, 19 men, women, and children, cast adrift on an ice floe from their foundering ship, the Arctic explorer "Polaris," endured a six-month winter ordeal before finally being rescued the following spring. In "Afterlands," Heighton provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history of this event., In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in the Arctic, struggling to survive both the harsh elements and one another. As the group splinters into factions along ethnic and national lines, rivalries -- complicated by sexual desire, unrequited love, extreme hunger, and suspicion -- begin to turn violent. Steven Heighton's provocative novel fills in the blanks of the Polaris's documented history and explores the shattering emotional and psychological consequences faced by those who survive.
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