The porpoise
Haddon, Mark, 1962-2019
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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. 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.
Main title:
The porpoise / by Mark Haddon.
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Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.©2019.
Collation:
475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Series:
Thorndike Press large print Bill's bookshelf
ISBN:
9781432871406
Language:
English
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BRN:
368551
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Library | Large Print | LP HADD | Available |