| ISBN |
9781004001651 (pbk.) : |
| Name |
Haddon, Mark, 1962- author. |
| Title |
The porpoise / Mark Haddon. |
| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Published |
Rearsby, Leicester : WF Howes Ltd, 2020. |
| ©2019. |
| Description |
ix, 388 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. |
| Notes |
Standard print edition originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2019. |
| Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Subjects |
Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. -- Pericles -- Adaptations |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Voyages and travels -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Large type books |
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