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A group of people all looking for a missing piece of themselves converges at a remote seaside inn, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth of their entwined situations becomes clear. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.
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"Exotic...erotic... <b>Ocean Sea</b> is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br>With <b>Silk</b>, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With <b>Ocean Sea</b>, he has been acclaimed as the successor to Italo Calvino, and a major voice in modern literature.<br><br>In <b>Ocean Sea</b>, 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, <b>Ocean Sea</b> is a novel of striking originality and wisdom.
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