Samantha Hunt
Paperback | Pages: 193 pages Rating: 4.04 | 3363 Users | 509 Reviews
Particularize Of Books The Seas
| Title | : | The Seas |
| Author | : | Samantha Hunt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 193 pages |
| Published | : | December 27th 2005 by Picador (first published November 1st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
Narration Concering Books The Seas
The narrator of The Seas lives in a tiny, remote, alcoholic, cruel seaside town. An occasional chambermaid, granddaughter to a typesetter, and daughter to a dead man, awkward and brave, wayward and willful, she is in love (unrequited) with an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. She is convinced that she is a mermaid. What she does to ease the pain of growing up lands her in prison. What she does to get out is the stuff of legend. In the words of writer Michelle Tea, The Seas is "creepy and poetic, subversive and strangely funny, [and] a phenomenal piece of literature."List Books During The Seas
| Original Title: | The Seas |
| ISBN: | 0312425236 (ISBN13: 9780312425234) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2011) |
Rating Of Books The Seas
Ratings: 4.04 From 3363 Users | 509 ReviewsPiece Of Books The Seas
Strange and beguiling this is a lyrical novel about being two things at once. Full of magical realism, the narrator, who might or might not be a mermaid, is in love with Jude, fourteen years older and suffering from ptsd. The last third surprised me just when I was ready to be surprised, but I'm still thinking about the ending. This is Hunt's first novel, although her second was published first in the UK.I really liked this novel. Short and existential, and constantly questioning its reality. There are not too many "mainstream" novels in which the heroine has to push a beached King Neptune back in to the sea. The perceptual problems of the young protagonist are very alluring. I really believed she was turning into a mermaid. It's the only thing that made everything make sense.
Wait! What?...I need a paperback of this book. Audio was great, no words, but I know, I really know, it will have a five star rating for a hardcopy!!!Now it's 4.5.@Sosi sorry, I couldn't wait and finished it today 😊
He was a veteran of the Iraq war, not the Gulf war...just for time period purposes.
it surprised me to find resonance from a book about women longing for their men lost at sea, but the poetry here, and the mermaid mythology sneaking in, all came together into something beautiful. i am not surprised at all that maggie nelson cherished this book.
afraid this might have just ruined 2020 reading for me
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars If one word can mean so many things at the same time, than I dont see why I cant Magical realism with a focus on the ocean. A cold coastal town, inhabited by damaged people. A girl who flees from her grief in the belief that she is a mermaid. This book, thematically, should have been an easy sell for me. The premise sounded right up my alley, the cover is one of the most beautiful ones Ive seen in a long time and all in all this novel has a level of strangeness
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