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The Lifeboat - Softcover

Charlotte Rogan

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9781844087532: The Lifeboat
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1844087530 ISBN 13: 9781844087532
Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers, 2012

Synopsis

* THE LIFEBOAT is a daring and adventurous novel set just before the First World War. It begins in a courtroom, where an enigmatic young woman named Grace Sachs is on trial; in flashback, we learn why ...

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About the Author

Charlotte Rogan graduated from Princeton in 1975. She taught herself to write between working at various jobs and bringing up triplets. Her childhood vacations with a family of sailors provided inspiration for THE LIFEBOAT, her first novel. She lives in Connecticut, US.

Review

"The Lifeboat is a richly rewarding novel, psychologically acute and morally complex. It can and should be read on many levels, but it is first and foremost a harrowing tale of survival. And what an irresistible tale it is; terrifying, intense, and, like the ocean in which the shipwrecked characters are cast adrift, profound."--Valerie Martin, author of Property and The Confessions of Edward Day "The Lifeboat is a spellbinding and beautifully written novel, one that will keep readers turning pages late into the night. This is storytelling at its best, and I was completely absorbed from beginning to end."--Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, July, July "What a splendid book. . . . I can't imagine any reader who looks at the opening pages wanting to put the book down. . . . It's so refreshing to read a book that is ambitious and yet not tricksy, where the author seems to be in command of her material and really on top of her game. It's beautifully controlled and totally believable."--Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall "The Lifeboat traps the reader in a story that is exciting at the literal level and brutally moving at the existential: I read it in one go."--Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Charlotte Rogan uses a deceptively simply narrative of shipwreck and survival to explore our all-too-human capacity for self-deception."--J. M. Coetzee

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Publisher
Little, Brown Young Readers
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844087530
ISBN 13 
9781844087532
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
275
Rating
  • 3.20 out of 5 stars
    25,606 ratings by Goodreads