| Description |
317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm |
| Summary |
" 'I really am so very, very sorry about this,' he says, in an oddly formal voice... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home."--Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles -- Adaptations
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Aircraft accidents -- Fiction
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Widowers -- Fiction
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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
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Mythology, Greek -- Fiction
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Parables
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Sea stories
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| Genre/Form |
Mythological fiction.
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Psychological fiction.
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Sea fiction.
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Adaptations.
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Reading nook.
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| Author |
Novelization of (work) Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Pericles
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| LC no. |
2018047987 |
| ISBN |
9781784742829 |
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9781784742836 |
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1784742821 |
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178474283X |
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