Bright and Distant Shores: A Novel - Dominic Smith - Livros - Atria Books - 9781439198865 - 13 de setembro de 2011
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Dominic Smith
Bright and Distant Shores: A Novel

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From the award-winning author of "The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre" and "The Beautiful Miscellaneous" comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.
In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger for tribal artifacts, spawning collecting voyages from museums and collectors around the globe. In 1897, one such collector, a Chicago insurance magnate, sponsors an expedition into the South Seas to commemorate the completion of his company's new skyscraper--the world's tallest building. The ship is to bring back an array of Melanesian weaponry and handicrafts, but also several natives related by blood.
Caught up in this scheme are two orphans--Owen Graves, an itinerant trader from Chicago's South Side who has recently proposed to the girl he must leave behind, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy in the New Hebrides who longs to be reunited with his sister. At the cusp of the twentieth century, the expedition forces a collision course between the tribal and the civilized, between two young men plagued by their respective and haunting pasts.
An epic and ambitious story that brings to mind E. L. Doctorow, with echoes of Melville and Robert Louis Stevenson, "Bright and Distant Shores "is a wondrous achievement by a writer known for creating compelling fiction from the fabric of history.
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480 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 13 de setembro de 2011
ISBN13 9781439198865
Editoras Atria Books
Páginas 480
Dimensões 135 × 210 × 33 mm   ·   430 g
Idioma Inglês  

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