Sea Wife by Amity Gaige (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Sea Wife by Amity Gaige Estimated delivery 4-14 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson, and Jennifer Egan Publisher Description From the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their livesJuliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them - a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet.The initial result is transformative: their marriage is given a gust of energy, and even the children are affected by the beauty and wonderful vertigo of travel. The sea challenges them all - and most of all, Juliet, who suffers from postpartum depression.Sea Wife is told in gripping dual perspectives: Juliets first-person narration, after the journey, as she struggles to come to terms with the dire, life-changing events that unfolded at sea; and Michaels captains log - that provides a riveting, slow-motion account of those same inexorable events.Exuberant, harrowing, witty, and exquisitely written, Sea Wife is impossible to put down. Author Biography AMITY GAIGE is the author of three novels,O My Darling, The Folded World, and Schroder, which was short-listed for the Folio Prize in 2014. Published in eighteen countries, Schroder was named one of best books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review, Huffington Post, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews, The Womens National Book Association, Cosmopolitan, Denver Post, The Buffalo News, The Millions, Amazon, Bookmarks, and Publishers Weekly, among others. Gaige is the recipient of many awards for her previous novels, including Foreword Book of the Year Award for 2007; and in 2006, she was named one of the 5 Under 35 outstanding emerging writers by the National Book Foundation. She has a Fulbright and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, The New York Times, the Literary Review, The Yale Review, and One Story. She lives in Connecticut with her family. Details ISBN 0349726515 ISBN-13 9780349726519 Title Sea Wife Author Amity Gaige Format Hardcover Year 2020 Pages 288 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group GE_Item_ID:128320328; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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