Spring Thaw

Stebel, S. L.

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ISBN 10: 0802710689 ISBN 13: 9780802710680

Published by New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co, 1989

Language: English

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First edition. A FINE book in FINE( price-clipped) jacket, SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. Afterword by Ray Bradbury.

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Title

Spring Thaw

Publisher

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Walker & Co

Publication Date

1989

Language

English

ISBN 10

0802710689

ISBN 13

9780802710680

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fine

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Fine

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Young Jason Melman inherits command of his father's sealing ship, but a blizzard steers the vessel on a strange course guarded by the ethereal, possibly imaginary Mirabelle, and Jason faces enemies at every turn

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Set amid the terrible beauty of frozen arctic wastes, this electrifying adventure-fantasy is both timeless and joltingly contemporary. Its narrator, Jason Melman, captain of a seal-hunting vessel, uses an ancient parchment scroll handed down by his Norwegian seafaring father to locate a fabled sealing ground between Labrador and Greenland. There, Jason encounters feisty Mirabelle, the spirit of a village woman who was exiled 30 years ago--along with her poet-boyfriend Macafee--for preaching that the slaughter of innocent creatures is a sin. Is Mirabelle a guardian spirit, a reincarnated entity or an hallucination? It's an open question, but Jason's blustering father, Johann, fell madly in love with her decades earlier. Now Jason, besides coping with a mutinous crew and his need to prove his manhood, must uncover his father's dread secret to fathom the weird phenomena on this ill-fated expedition. Jason's impending marriage is also at stake. Novelist ( The Collaborator ) and screenwriter Stebel has surpassed himself with this stinging tale. Taut, emotionally charged and conveying a strong ecological message, this book is impossible to put down.
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