The Resource The comet seekers, Helen Sedgwick
The comet seekers, Helen Sedgwick
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The item The comet seekers, Helen Sedgwick represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wadleigh Memorial Library.
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- Summary
- "A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Roisin and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other. Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers' destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies--the arrival of comets great and small. In telling Roisin and François's story, Sedgwick illuminates the lives of their ancestors, showing how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets themselves. A mesmerizing, skillfully crafted, and emotionally perceptive novel that explores the choices we make, the connections we miss, and the ties that inextricably join our fates, The Comet Seekers reflects how the shifting cosmos unite us all through life, beyond death, and across the whole of time."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker."--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9780062448767
- Label
- The comet seekers
- Title
- The comet seekers
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Sedgwick
- Title variation
- Comet seekers
- Title variation remainder
- a novel
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Roisin and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland and a peripatetic astronomer, joins the science team to observe the fracturing of a comet overhead. François, the base's chef, has just left his birthplace in Bayeux, France, for only the second time in his life. Yet devastating tragedy and the longing for a fresh start, which they share, as well as an indelible but unknown bond that stretches back centuries, connect them to each other. Helen Sedgwick carefully unfolds their surprisingly intertwined paths, moving forward and back through time to reveal how these lovers' destinies have long been tied to each other by the skies--the arrival of comets great and small. In telling Roisin and François's story, Sedgwick illuminates the lives of their ancestors, showing how strangers can be connected and ghosts can be real, and how the way we choose to see the world can be as desolate or as beautiful as the comets themselves. A mesmerizing, skillfully crafted, and emotionally perceptive novel that explores the choices we make, the connections we miss, and the ties that inextricably join our fates, The Comet Seekers reflects how the shifting cosmos unite us all through life, beyond death, and across the whole of time."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Sedgwick, Helen
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3619.E342
- LC item number
- C66 2016
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Astronomers
- Comets
- Astronomers
- Comets
- Giacobini-Zinner comet
- Antarctica
- Antarctica
- Solar system
- Label
- The comet seekers, Helen Sedgwick
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062448767
- Lccn
- 2016008606
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn934884321
- Label
- The comet seekers, Helen Sedgwick
- Note
- "Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Harvill Secker."--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First U.S. edition.
- Extent
- 290 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062448767
- Lccn
- 2016008606
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn934884321
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