![]() ![]() With savage, unstoppable momentum and the blackest wit, Ian McGuire's The North Water weaves a superlative story of humanity under the most extreme conditions. The discovery of something evil in the hold rouses Sumner to action.Īnd as the confrontation between the two men plays out amid the freezing darkness of an arctic winter, the fateful question arises: who will survive until spring? He had hoped to find temporary respite on the Volunteer, but rest proves impossible with Drax on board. Book Review Podcast Globetrotting Daniel Zender Fiction A Novel Depicts One Disordered Night in the Life of a Teenager Shy, by Max Porter, offers a look inside the multidimensional. ![]() In India, during the Siege of Delhi, Sumner thought he had experienced the depths to which man can stoop. Henry Drax is a harpooner on the Volunteer, a Yorkshire whaler bound for the rich hunting waters of the arctic circle.Īlso aboard for the first time is Patrick Sumner, an ex-army surgeon with a shattered reputation, no money, and no better option than to sail as the ship's medic on this violent, filthy, and ill-fated voyage. ![]() A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller.īehold the man: stinking, drunk, and brutal. ![]()
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