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Jamrach's Menagerie

Autor Carol Birch
en Limba Engleză Hardback – iun 2011

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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of "Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, " and "The Voyage of the Narwhal.
"J"amrach s Menagerie" tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry.
Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition. Onboard, Jaffy and Tim enjoy the rough brotherhood of sailors and the brutal art of whale hunting. They even succeed in catching the reptilian beast.
But when the ship s whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon seething with feral power in its cage as bad luck, a feeling that is cruelly reinforced when a violent storm sinks the ship.
Drifting across an increasingly hallucinatory ocean, the survivors, including Jaffy and Tim, are forced to confront their own place in the animal kingdom. Masterfully told, wildly atmospheric, and thundering with tension, "Jamrach s Menagerie" is a truly haunting novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780385534406
ISBN-10: 038553440X
Pagini: 295
Dimensiuni: 167 x 240 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Doubleday Books
Locul publicării:New York, NY

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" "One of the best stories I've ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book."
"--A. S. Byatt, author of "The Children's Book "in a BBC Interview
""Transcendently researched, unsparing and hypnotic, Jamrach's Menagerie takes us to the edge of endurance where it becomes impossible to distinguish the captor from the captive. Carol Birch's urgent and wise story goes far beyond any whaling expedition, plumbing the depths of how we create our own humanity. It is a thrill to welcome this remarkable novelist to a larger American audience."
--"Sheri Holman, " author of The Dress Lodger"
"[T]here are enough strange sights, pervasive smells and sounds and curious characters to keep most novelists - and readers - going strong for three times the number of pages that there are here..... a rather subtler story of the hazy line

"[An] almost unbearably suspenseful story of adventure and survival....as the story advances, a powerfully pervasive sense of melancholy takes hold of the reader, much as the tiger did young Jaffy, and one wonders if it will ever let go. Though Mr. Jamrach is based on a real historical figure, and Jaffy's voyage on that of the ill-fated whaler Essex, the story is entirely Birch's, and her principal characters are her own wonderful invention. She is, moreover, a brilliant stylist; reader her is like Christmas, every word being a gift to the reader. Though Birch is an established writer in England, this is her first novel to be published in the U.S. One fervently hopes it will not be the last."--"Booklist," starred review
"A magical, literary novel puts a surreal spin on a coming-of-age seafaring saga....retains a sense of childlike wonder in its lyrical prose....Jaffy's experience could well move the reader as profoundly as it changed the narrator"--"Kirkus," starred revie

"[An] unusual tale.....acclaimed British author Carol Birch is a literary original who writes with real assurance."--"Christian Science Monitor"
"[An] almost unbearably suspenseful story of adventure and survival....as the story advances, a powerfully pervasive sense of melancholy takes hold of the reader, much as the tiger did young Jaffy, and one wonders if it will ever let go. Though Mr. Jamrach is based on a real historical figure, and Jaffy's voyage on that of the ill-fated whaler Essex, the story is entirely Birch's, and her principal characters are her own wonderful invention. She is, moreover, a brilliant stylist; reader her is like Christmas, every word being a gift to the reader. Though Birch is an established writer in England, this is her first novel to be published in the U.S. One fervently hopes it will not be the last."--"Booklist," starred review
"A magical, literary novel puts a surreal spin on a coming-of-age seafaring saga....retains a sense of c

" "One of the best stories I've ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book."
"--A. S. Byatt, author of "The Children's Book "in a BBC Interview
"Melville meets Dickens...."Jamrach's Menagerie" is a moving, fantastically exciting sea tale that takes you back to those great 19th-century stories that first convinced you 'there is no frigate like a book'....One of the magical qualities of Birch's story is that it gives that sense of Dickensian sprawl and scope even though it's spun in fewer than 300 pages.....Another wonder of this novel is sweet Jaffy's dynamic voice, which evolves from the wide-eyed enthusiasms of boyhood to the weary melancholy of middle age. In the early pages, everything comes to us teeming with the lush sensory overload of his 8-year-old mind, a riot of impressions and fresh metaphors.....But it's the novel's long second part that will keep you up late and make you feel distracted whenever you have to set it down and leave Jaffy's w

LONGLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
" "One of the best stories I've ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book."
"--A. S. Byatt, author of "The Children's Book "in a BBC Interview
"Beautifully written....Birch has created an electric and cluttered cabinet of curiosities, sprinkled with keenly heard jangles of singsongy dialogue.....as the novel takes off on a three-cord braid of adventure story, survival drama and coming-of-age tale.....the spirit is that of a high-seas adventure novel, a Victorian book for boys...[before] Birch begins to turn down the lights. Now we get a survival story as the crew is lost at sea. This is the novel's strongest section....hallucinatory haze....function [s] as a brilliant device.....Probably the most interesting element of this novel is not its horrors, but its colorful milieu, the late-19th-century interest in naturalism....And in Jaffy, Birch has captured a boyish wonder in nature....As ph

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
" "One of the best stories I've ever read; an extraordinarily good and completely original book."
"--A. S. Byatt, author of "The Children's Book "in a BBC Interview
"Beautifully written....Birch has created an electric and cluttered cabinet of curiosities, sprinkled with keenly heard jangles of singsongy dialogue.....as the novel takes off on a three-cord braid of adventure story, survival drama and coming-of-age tale.....the spirit is that of a high-seas adventure novel, a Victorian book for boys...[before] Birch begins to turn down the lights. Now we get a survival story as the crew is lost at sea. This is the novel's strongest section....hallucinatory haze....function [s] as a brilliant device.....Probably the most interesting element of this novel is not its horrors, but its colorful milieu, the late-19th-century interest in naturalism....And in Jaffy, Birch has captured a boyish wonder in nature....As phantasmagoric as the mood of this novel gets, there is nothing in it that steps outside the bounds of reality, for it knows the real world is fantastic enough."
--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Melville meets Dickens...."Jamrach's Menagerie" is a moving, fantastically exciting sea tale that takes you back to those great 19th-century stories that first convinced you 'there is no frigate like a book'....One of the magical qualities of Birch's story is that it gives that sense of Dickensian sprawl and scope even though it's spun in fewer than 300 pages.....Another wonder of this novel is sweet Jaffy's dynamic voice, which evolves from the wide-eyed enthusiasms of boyhood to the weary melancholy of middle age. In the early pages, everything comes to us teeming with the lush sensory overload of his 8-year-old mind, a riot of impressions and fresh metaphors.....But it's the novel's long second part that will keep you up late and make you feel distracted whenever you have tob

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SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of "Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, " and "The Voyage of the Narwhal.
"J"amrach's Menagerie" tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy Brown. Following an incident with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Thus begins a long, close friendship fraught with ambiguity and rivalry.
Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedi-tion. Onboard, Jaffy and Tim enjoy the rough brotherhood of sailors and the brutal art of whale hunting. They even succeed in catching the reptilian beast.
But when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expecta-tions, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck, a feeling that is cruelly reinforced when a violent storm sinks the ship.
Drifting across an increasingly hallucinatory ocean, the sur-vivors, including Jaffy and Tim, are forced to confront their own place in the animal kingdom. Masterfully told, wildly atmospheric, and thundering with tension, "Jamrach's Mena-gerie" is a truly haunting novel about friendship, sacrifice, and survival.

Notă biografică

CAROL BIRCH is the author of nine other novels published in Britain. She has won the David Higham Award for" Life in the Palace" and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for "The Fog Line, "and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 for "Turn Again Home."

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