The Resource The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
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- Summary
- "After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with the woman's self-destructive unraveling is the story of how, two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. With a life unraveling and the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, this book is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, it asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency"--From book cover flap
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- US edition.
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press"--Title page verso
- Isbn
- 9781646220175
- Label
- The inland sea : a novel
- Title
- The inland sea
- Title remainder
- a novel
- Statement of responsibility
- Madeleine Watts
- Subject
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- trueAbusive men
- trueAdult child abuse victims
- trueAnxiety
- trueAustralia
- trueCheating (Interpersonal relations)
- trueClimate change
- Climatic changes -- Fiction
- Ecofiction
- trueEmergency dispatchers
- Explorers -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- truePsychic trauma
- Psychological fiction
- trueSelf-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with the woman's self-destructive unraveling is the story of how, two centuries earlier, her great-great-great-great-grandfather--the British explorer John Oxley--traversed the wilderness of Australia in search of water. Oxley never found the inland sea, but the myth was taken up by other men, and over the years, search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. With a life unraveling and the gradual worsening of the climate crisis, this book is charged with unflinching insight into our age of anxiety. At a time when wildfires have swept an entire continent, it asks what refuge and comfort looks like in a constant state of emergency"--From book cover flap
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- 10940184
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Watts, Madeleine
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3623.A8798
- LC item number
- I55 2021
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Climatic changes
- Women
- Self-destructive behavior
- Explorers
- Sydney (N.S.W.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- US edition.
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9781646220175
- Lccn
- 2020936788
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- on1181834454
- (OCoLC)1181834454
- Label
- The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain in 2020 by One, an imprint of Pushkin Press"--Title page verso
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- US edition.
- Extent
- 260 pages
- Isbn
- 9781646220175
- Lccn
- 2020936788
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1181834454
- (OCoLC)1181834454
Subject
- trueAbusive men
- trueAdult child abuse victims
- trueAnxiety
- trueAustralia
- trueCheating (Interpersonal relations)
- trueClimate change
- Climatic changes -- Fiction
- Ecofiction
- trueEmergency dispatchers
- Explorers -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal relations
- truePsychic trauma
- Psychological fiction
- trueSelf-destructive behavior
- Self-destructive behavior -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Women -- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- trueYoung women
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