Ocean Sea
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"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature. In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.
Author: Alessandro Baricco
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/27/2000
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375703959
About the Author
Alessandro Baricco has won numerous literary awards in Italy and France. He lives in Turin, Italy.
Author: Alessandro Baricco
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/27/2000
Series: Vintage International
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780375703959
About the Author
Alessandro Baricco has won numerous literary awards in Italy and France. He lives in Turin, Italy.
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