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Ocean Sea (Paperback): Alessandro Baricco

Ocean Sea (Paperback)

Alessandro Baricco

Series: Vintage International

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"Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review

With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocean Sea, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature.

In Ocean Sea, Alessandro Baricco presents a hypnotizing postmodern fable of human malady--psychological, existential, erotic--and the sea as a means of deliverance. At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has failed to remedy. When these people meet, their fates begin to interact as if by design. Enter a mighty tempest and a ghostly mariner with a thirst for vengeance, and the Inn becomes a place where destiny and desire battle for the upper hand. Playful, provocative, and ultimately profound, Ocean Sea is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.

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Imprint: Vintage Books
Country of origin: United States
Series: Vintage International
Release date: June 2000
First published: June 2000
Authors: Alessandro Baricco
Dimensions: 203 x 132 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-0-375-70395-9
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 0-375-70395-0
Barcode: 9780375703959

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