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A sensational and hypnotic novel by "a author of extraordinary gifts" [Tobias Wolff], The Seal Wife tells the story of a scientist and his consuming love for a woman known as Aleut. In 1915, Bigelow is delivered to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage, Alaska, and finds that nothing has prepared him for the loneliness of the railroad town of over two thousand men and only a handful of women, of winter nights twenty hours long. And nothing can protect him from obsession-both with a woman, who seems in her silence and mystery to have the energy to destroy his life forever, and with the weather kite he designs to fly greater than any kite has ever flown before, a kite with which Bigelow plans to penetrate and know not just the sky but the heavens. A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside conventions. Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the first World War and in lyrical prose explores the inside landscape of the psyche and human feelings - a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier, the storms that blow over the planet earth and its face.
