03375cam a2200337 4500 1467945360 TxAuBib 20240728120000.0 ||||||s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780593829998 0593829999 77207fb7-0553-4761-b424-4859d83ef404 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10092034 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib O'Connor, Elizabeth. Whale Fall [Libby] : A Novel. Books on Tape, 2024. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 105MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 105MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b><i>THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW</i> EDITORS' CHOICE •&#160;A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community<br /> “Both blunt and exquisite . . . O’Connor’s excellent debut . . . &#160;is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude.”—<i>New York Times Book Review</i><br /> "<i>Whale&#160;Fall</i> is a powerful novel, written with a calm, luminous precision, each feeling rendered with chiseled care, the drama of island life unfolding with piercing emotional accuracy." —Colm Toibin, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Long Island</i></b><br /> In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister&#160;(to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior),&#160;Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations.<br /> The arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture, then, feels like a boon to her—both a glimpse of life outside her community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that&#160;her community is being misconstrued and exoticized.<br /> With shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, <i>Whale Fall</i> tells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipice, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on them. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-07-27 20:00:03. Morris, Dyfrig. Glaister, Gabrielle. Keyworth, Gwyneth. Davies, Jot. Griffiths, Nick. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=77207fb7-0553-4761-b424-4859d83ef404&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=77207fb7-0553-4761-b424-4859d83ef404&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)