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The Resource The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts

The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts

Label
The inland sea : a novel
Title
The inland sea
Title remainder
a novel
Statement of responsibility
Madeleine Watts
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
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
Storyline
Writing style
Character
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
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
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True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Climatic changes
  • Women
  • Self-destructive behavior
  • Explorers
  • Sydney (N.S.W.)
Target audience
adult
Label
The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
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
Label
The inland sea : a novel, Madeleine Watts
Publication
Copyright
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

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