[bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted: Afterlands
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:00:59 -0400
That one sounds really good.
You always pick some great stuff.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted: Afterlands
All,
I have just submitted for validation the following:
Afterlands, a novel, by Steve Heighton, Haughton Mifflin, 2005, pp 400.
From the book jacket:
THIS GRIPPING NOVEL OF ARCTIC survival, is based on one of the most
remarkable events in polar exploration. In 1871, off the coast of Greenland,
nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS
Polaris, were cast adrift on a large ice floe as their ship began to
founder. Afterlands is the story of this small society of castaways a white
and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two
Inuit families as they try to survive a six-month winter ordeal, struggling
with the harsh elements and with one another, the group splintering into
factions along ethnic and national lines.
Steven Heighten provocatively fills in the blanks of the documented history
of this event by focusing on the suspicions, the hunger-induced delusions,
and the unrequited longings among three members of the group: Roland Kruger,
an educated, witty, rebellious German seaman; Tukulito, or "Hannah," the
party's Inuit interpreter; and George Tyson, the American ranking officer,
who later wrote an account of the experience that solidified his reputation
as a hero while casting Kruger as the villain. Throughout the novel,
Heighten incorporates passages from Tyson's contentious account, then
daringly imagines the aftermath of the ordeal, following Kruger, Tukulito,
and Tyson as they attempt to move beyond their searing memories and resume
their lives in the larger world.
Combining the high drama of Arctic survival and the psychological intensity
of modern theater, this beautifully written novel powerfully addresses
themes of belonging, nationalism, and love in times of crisis.
***
This is an awesome book, and I hope someone picks it up soon.
Brian Miller
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