The Seal Wife
Written by Kathryn Harrison
Narrated by Fred Stella
2.5/5
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About this audiobook
Here is the bestselling novel by "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak.
A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche—a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face.
Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison is the author of the novels ‘The Binding Chair’, ‘Exposure’, ‘A Thousand Orange Trees’ and ‘Envy’, as well as two volumes of memoirs, ‘The Kiss’ and ‘Seeking Rapture’, all available from Fourth Estate. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their children.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Seal Wife was one of the most dreadfully boring books I've ever read. It is about a young meteorologist and his relationships with two women in 1920's Alaska. I couldn't wait to be done reading this.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A story as stark as the Alaskan winter. A young meteorologist is stationed in Anchorage during the period of WWI. There he becomes consumed by his love for a woman who refuses to speak and is known only as the Aleut
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