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Ocean Sea

Ocean Sea

by Alessandro Baricco (Author)

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    Paperback 2008

    $3.39

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

A handful of disparate lives converge at a remote seaside inn: a lovelorn professor, a renowned painter, an inscrutable seductress - and a beautiful young girl, fatally ill, brought to the sea by a desperate father's last hope. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to reveal itself, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. Adams may furnish the key to the girl's salvation, but only the fulfilment of his obsessive secret purpose - to answer murder with murder - can conclude the journey that has brought him from the ends of the earth. Alternately playful and profoundly serious, Baricco's novel surges with the hypnotic power of the ocean sea.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 256
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 17 Jul 2008
ISBN 10: 1847670741
ISBN 13: 9781847670748
Book Overview: An acclaimed and haunting tale of love and vengeance - from the author of the bestselling Silk

Media Reviews
Baricco is an exemplary storyteller . . . [he] shows a Bertolucci-like, chair-hopping, gesticulating sense of sheer joy, that turns this tragic tale into a bittersweet tragi-comedy. * * Time Out * *
Compelling, profound and sharply funny -- Stephanie Merritt * * Observer * *
Highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical * * New York Times Book Review * *
Baricco has produced a work of miraculously spun sugar, at which many people will gasp in admiration. * * Spectator * *
This is a novel driven by the pleasure of narrative. Unburdened by a single perspective, the writing is ethereal. * * Telegraph * *
Baricco has produced a beguilingly unusual beach book. * * The Times * *
Author Bio
Alessandro Baricco was born in Turin in 1958. He is the author of many novels, including Silk and Without Blood, all of which have been translated into English. His novel Silk became a film starring Kiera Knightley in 2007 and he has also produced collections of essays and a theatrical monologue. He lives in Italy.