Submergence, Ledgard, J. M.

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Submergence, Ledgard, J. M.. Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism.. [A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror. She is obsessed with the life that multiplies in the darkness of the lowest strata of water. Can't find what you're looking for? Home page About us Feedback Payment Delivery Customer Service Contact us Shop by Price $10.34 $10.35 - $12.34 $12.35 - $14.34 $14.35 - $16.34 $16.35+ Shop pages Home page Payment Delivery Customer Service About the seller Need help? Send an eBay message Newsletter Add World of Books to your favourites and receive email newsletters about special promotions! General Interest Submergence Product Details: Category: Books ISBN: 1566893194 Title: Submergence The Fast Free Shipping Author: Ledgard, J. M. Publisher: Coffee House Press Year Published: 0411 Number of Pages: 208 Book Binding: Paperback / softback Prizes: Book Condition: GOOD SKU: CIN1566893194G Item description [T]he best novel I've read so far this year. . . . I started Submergence one afternoon, cut short a social event that evening to keep reading, stepped off a train at midnight with twenty pages left, and stood under a light on the platform to finish them . . . strange, intelligent, gorgeously written . . . Submergence is a dark book, but in such an unusual sense: Ledgard turns out the lights, and everything, inside and out, begins to glow. Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine Every once in a while, a critic will be mesmerized by a book that stands out from even wipes the floor with all other books that have come his way of late. . . . Prose merges with poetry; shocks detonate like depth charges, and characters' fates actually matter in Submergence, an astonishing novel that utterly immerses the reader. Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism. . . . [A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror. Alan Cheuse, NPR's All Things Considered Ledgard has given, in Submergence, glimpses of very strange life indeed: the spy in a place so lawless that chaos is the only norm, the scientist in our planet's least knowable region, lovers expert at self-containment. Out of this, acute understandings emerge. New York Times Book Review In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water expert to report on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions, and forced marches through the arid badlands of Somalia. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders, a biomathematician, half-French, half-Australian, prepares to dive in a submersible to the ocean floor. She is obsessed with the life that multiplies in the darkness of the lowest strata of water. Both are drawn back to the previous Christmas, and to a French hotel on the Atlantic coast, where a chance encounter on the beach led to an intense and enduring romance. For James, his mind escapes to utopias both imagined and remembered. Danny is drawn back to beginnings: to mythical and scientific origins, and to her own. It is to each other and to the ocean that they most frequently return: magnetic and otherworldly, a comfort and a threat. J. M. Ledgard was born in the Shetland Islands. He has been a correspondent for The Economist since 1995, specializing in foreign political and war reporting. He currently works in Africa, traveling widely in the continent. Please note, the image is for illustrative purposes only, actual book cover, binding and edition may vary. 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