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Haddon, Mark, 1962-

The porpoise : a novel / Mark Haddon. - London : Chatto & Windus, 2019. - 317 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references.

The flight -- The child -- The porpoise -- The family -- The serpent -- The hunt -- The storm.

"'I really am so very, very sorry about this, ' he says, in an oddly formal voice ... They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour. A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash. She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world. When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail ... So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler's hand, and ghost women with lampreys' teeth drag a man to hell - and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home."--Provided by publisher.

ISBN: 9781784742829 9781784742836 1784742821 178474283X

LCCN: 2018047987

Nat. Bib. No.: 20189064110 can

Subjects--Personal Names:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Pericles --Adaptations.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aircraft accidents--Fiction.
Widowers--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Mythology, Greek--Fiction.
Parables.
Sea stories--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Mythological fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Sea fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6058.A26 / P67 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 823/.914