Overview
A professor marries his prize student, a woman forty years his junior, and at her request, he takes her to the sea for their honeymoon. His lifeās work is a book about enchantmentānarratives in literature, most of them involving strange girls and womenābut soon he finds himself distracted by his own enchantment with his new whiteāhaired young wife. They travel to the Orkney Islands, the ancient Mesolithic and Neolithic site north of the Scottish coast, a barren place of extraordinary beauty known as āthe Seal Islands.ā And as the days of their honeymoon pass, his desire and his constant, yearning contemplation become his normality. His mysterious bride becomes his entire universe. He is consumed . . .
From the author of The Still Point, a winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, this is a novel that āwill appeal to literature aficionados: a Lolitaāesque love, a romance born out of academia, and folklore come to lifeā (Booklist).
āWhat begins as a familiar, almost fairytaleālike narrative ends as something more fragmented, unsettling, and odd . . . Providing a brooding, bruised, everāchanging backdrop to all this is Orkney, the bookās most compelling character of all. In a tribute to Virginia Woolfās experimental masterpiece, The Waves, the sea in Orkney functions as a kind of rhythmic talisman, its ebb and flow mirrored in the actions, ideas, and themes of the book. More than anything, Sackvilleās Orkney is a breathtaking place in the most literal of senses.ā āThe Scotsman
This book title, Orkney (A Novel), ISBN: 9781619023161, by Amy Sackville, published by Catapult (April 1, 2014) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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