{"product_id":"9781472154231-seas","title":"The Seas","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA reissue of Samantha Hunt's award-winning novel, with a new introduction from Maggie Nelson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Seas \u003c\/i\u003et\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eook me back to how I felt as a kid, when you're newly falling in love with literature, newly shocked by its capacity to cast a spell.\" Maggie Nelson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[It] blew me away because of the beauty of the language . I found myself highlighting about 85% of the book for the language. It is so beautifully written\" Jodi Picoult\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoored in a coastal fishing town so far north that the highways only run south, the unnamed narrator of \u003ci\u003eThe Seas i\u003c\/i\u003es a misfit. She's often the subject of cruel local gossip. Her father, a sailor, walked into the ocean eleven years earlier and never returned, leaving his wife and daughter to keep a forlorn vigil. Surrounded by water and beckoned by the sea, she clings to what her father once told her: that she is a mermaid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrue to myth, she finds herself in hard love with a land-bound man, an Iraq War veteran thirteen years her senior. The mesmerizing, fevered coming-of-age tale that follows will land her in jail. Her otherworldly escape will become the stuff of legend. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the inventive brilliance and psychological insight that have earned her international acclaim, Samantha Hunt pulls readers into an undertow of impossible love and intoxication, blurring the lines between reality and fairy tale, hope and delusion, sanity and madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31839402197089,"sku":"9781472154231","price":9.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26795671.jpg?v=1721291292","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781472154231-seas","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}