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'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
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Porpoise, Mark Haddon
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- Pubblicato
- 2019
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- Titolo
- Porpoise
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Mark Haddon
- Editore
- Penguin Random House
- Pubblicato
- 2019
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 336
- ISBN10
- 178474283X
- ISBN13
- 9781784742836
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Fantasy, Prosa storica, Fantascienza, Narrativa contemporanea, Relazioni, Mitologia, Letteratura inglese, Romanzi psicologici, Relazioni Familiari, Tragedia, Navigazione marittima, Incesto, Pedofilia
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2019
- Titolo originale
- The Porpoise
- Valutazione
- 3,3 su 5
- Descrizione
- 'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.