The Quality of Silence: A Novel
de Rosamund Lupton
- Usado
- good
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Good/Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1101903678
- ISBN 13
- 9781101903674
- Librería
-
Syracuse, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Crown, February 2016. Hardcover. Good/Good+. DJ has wear and sticker residue in multiple spots. Pages toned and smudged. Book is supined
Reseñas
El Feb 27 2016, un lector dijo:
"He knew now that a landslide a hundred feet wide was moving towards the ice road, frozen soil and rocks and shrunken trees stealing closer by a few centimetres a day, gaining speed and destroying anything in their way; as if the land itself, like the cold, was not just passively hostile but actively aggressive"
The Quality of Silence is the third novel by bestselling British author, Rosamund Lupton. When Yasmin Alfredson and her ten-and-a-half year-old daughter, Ruby, arrive at Fairbanks, Alaska, they expect that husband and father, Matthew there to meet them. Instead, a police officer is telling Yasmin that the remote village where Matthew was photographing wildlife, Anaktue has been burned to the ground with all lives lost. And the finding of Matthew's wedding ring seems to confirm that he is one of the victims.
But Yasmin remains unconvinced; she is steadfast in her belief that her husband is still alive, alone in the wilderness, and is determined to find him before the predicted storm hits. With no safe place to leave Ruby, Yasmin is obliged to bring her profoundly deaf daughter along. No available flights mean that road transport is the only option, and before long, events see Yasmin driving a loaded eighteen-wheeler in the Arctic dark of November on an ice road. And someone seems to be following them.
Lupton's plot is original, while her characters have depth and appeal; she states in the acknowledgements that she wanted her heroine to be courageous and imaginative, and Ruby certainly is that, with her deafness adding a unique perspective. Lupton conveys the Arctic cold and dark with consummate ease. The reader is treated to some beautiful descriptive prose.
This is a real page-turner of a book with a nail-biting climax (or two), twists and red herrings to keep it all interesting, and a strong environmental message to convey. Lupton's extensive research into Arctic life, animals and people, into fracking, and into deafness (as well as her personal experience on this subject) is apparent on every page. Readers will find themselves contemplating society's attitude to disabilities like deafness, as well as the pros and cons of fracking.
If the reader can sufficiently suspend disbelief about a relatively inexperienced English driver successfully operating an American eighteen-wheeler on an ice road in the dark, then this is a brilliant read.
With thanks to the GoodReads Giveaway program for this copy to read and review.
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- Librería
- Books End Bookshop (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1033838
- Título
- The Quality of Silence: A Novel
- Autor
- Rosamund Lupton
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Good+
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1101903678
- ISBN 13
- 9781101903674
- Editorial
- Crown
- Lugar de publicación
- Ny
- Fecha de publicación
- February 2016
- Páginas
- 304
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