Overview
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.
- | Author: Jim Crace
- | Publisher: Picador USA
- | Publication Date: Jan 01, 2005
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0312424426
- | ISBN-13: 9780312424428
