The porpoise : a novel / Mark Haddon.
Publication details: London : Chatto & Windus, 2019.Edition: First editionDescription: 317 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781784742829
- 1784742821
- 178474283X
- 9781784742836
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Fiction
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles -- Adaptations
- Pericles (Shakespeare, William)
- Sea stories
- Aircraft accidents -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
- Voyages and travels -- Fiction
- Aircraft accidents -- Fiction
- Widowers -- Fiction
- Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
- Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
- Parables
- Parables
- 823/.914 23
- PR6058.A26 P67 2019
- cci1icc
- coll13
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HAD | Available | 069390 |
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm.
" '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.