- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Counterpoint (Jan 9 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1582438005
- ISBN-13: 978-1582438009
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #275,309 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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At the turn of the twentieth century, Arctic explorer Edward Mackley sets out to reach the North Pole and vanishes into the icy landscape without a trace. He leaves behind a young wife, Emily, who awaits his return for decades, her dreams and devotion gradually freezing into rigid widowhood.
A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer's day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill-fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance.
"The Still Point" moves through past, present, and future, with dreams revealing a universal simultaneity to the choices we must all make in the faces of love and passion. Long-listed for the Orange Prize, "The Still Point" is a powerful literary debut, masterfully told in the language of the heart.
A hundred years later, on a sweltering mid-summer's day, Edward's great-grand-niece Julia moves through the old family house, attempting to impose some order on the clutter of inherited belongings and memories from that ill-fated expedition, and taking care to ignore the deepening cracks within her own marriage. But as afternoon turns into evening, Julia makes a discovery that splinters her long-held image of Edward and Emily's romance.
"The Still Point" moves through past, present, and future, with dreams revealing a universal simultaneity to the choices we must all make in the faces of love and passion. Long-listed for the Orange Prize, "The Still Point" is a powerful literary debut, masterfully told in the language of the heart.
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