Signals of Distress A Novel
, by Crace, JimNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780312424428 | 0312424426
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2005
November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.