Sea Wife
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'An immersive pleasure. Amity Gaige captivates us, tricks us and transports us' Amy Bloom When Michael informs his wife Juliet that he is leaving his job and buying a sailboat, she is taken aback. And when he proposes they and their two young children take a year-long voyage, she is deeply apprehensive. But Michael is persuasive, and eventually she agrees to his plan. Initially, the experience is transformative: their marriage is given a gust of energy, and each of them is affected by the beauty and wildness of the sea. But slowly, the voyage begins to unravel.Sea Wife is a gripping novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil. It is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment and survival.'Stunning . . . Gaige [tows] you to tragedy with the graceful crawl of a poet and the motorboat intensity of a suspense author' New York Times Book Review 'A smart, pacy and affecting book' Daily Mail von Gaige, Amity
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AMITY GAIGE is the author of three novels,O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder, which was short-listed for the Folio Prize in 2014. Published in eighteen countries, Schroder was named one of best books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review, Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Women's National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publisher's Weekly, among others. Gaige is the recipient of many awards for her previous novels, including Foreword Book of the Year Award for 2007; and in 2006, she was named one of the '5 Under 35' outstanding emerging writers by the National Book Foundation. She has a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. She lives in Connecticut with her family.
- Hardcover
- 400 Seiten
- Erschienen 2003
- Griffin
- Taschenbuch
- 96 Seiten
- Erschienen 2022
- Norton
- mass_market
- 320 Seiten
- Erschienen 2013
- Planeta Libros
- hardcover -
- Erschienen 1990
- Heyne Verlag