The Resource The porpoise : a novel, Mark Haddon
The porpoise : a novel, Mark Haddon
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Resource Information
The item The porpoise : a novel, Mark Haddon represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- " '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."--Provided by publisher
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Contents
-
- The flight
- The child
- The porpoise
- The family
- The serpent
- The hunt
- The storm
- Isbn
- 9781784742836
- Label
- The porpoise : a novel
- Title
- The porpoise
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Mark Haddon
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- " '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."--Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- AU@
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Haddon, Mark
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1564-1616
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Shakespeare, William
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Shakespeare, William
- Aircraft accidents
- Widowers
- Fathers and daughters
- Mythology, Greek
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The porpoise : a novel, Mark Haddon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm
- Control code
- 000065297629
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781784742836
- Lccn
- 2018047987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1101197013
- Label
- The porpoise : a novel, Mark Haddon
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm
- Control code
- 000065297629
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 317 pages
- Isbn
- 9781784742836
- Lccn
- 2018047987
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1101197013
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