[bookshare-discuss] Re: Just Submitted: Afterlands
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:10:54 -0800
Thanks Shellie, this one is especially terrific -- I used to teach a course
on arctic exploration, and I wish I had this novel when I taught as I would
have added it to my reading list.
Brian Miller
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> 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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> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Just Submitted: Afterlands
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>
> 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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