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Harrison, Kathryn
The Seal Wife: A Novel
New York Random House 2003 081296845X / 9780812968453 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Fine
233 pp., biblio.; 21 cm. Includes: Reading Group Discussion Guide at the back. Tight, clean copy. "Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, 'a writer of extraordinary gifts' (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist's consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name. Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage. But what could have prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town with more than two thousand men and only a handful of women, or for winter nights twenty hours long? And what can protect him from obsession - obsession with a woman who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and obsession with the weather kite he invents, a kite he hopes will fly higher than any has ever flown before and will penetrate the secrets of the heavens? A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and convention. As she brilliantly reimagines the terrain of the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War, Harrison, a 'master of her material' (Mary Gordon), also evokes early efforts to chart the weather and reveals the interior realm of the psyche and emotions - a human landscape that, in its splendor and terror, is profoundly and eerily reminiscent of the frozen frontier and the storms that scour its face. / Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels The Binding Chair, Poison, Exposure, and Thicker Than Water. She has also written a memoir, The Kiss. Her personal essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children." - Publisher.
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