Ocean Sea

Paperback, 241 pages

English language

Published Aug. 26, 1999 by Hamish Hamilton.

ISBN:
978-0-241-14072-7
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OCLC Number:
41310885

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4 stars (5 reviews)

At a remote place where the land meets the sea, a handful of disparate lives converge. Professor Bartleboom writes love letters to a woman he has yet to meet; Elisewin, a young girl, fatally ill, hopes to be cured by the sea; a renowned artist spends his days painting the sea with the sea; a beautiful woman who has betrayed her husband has been exiled. An intricate web of destinies and associations begins to form, but it is not until the arrival of a mysterious sailor called Adams that the truth in all its dreamlike beauty and cruelty becomes clear. --front flap

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4 stars

I read this one for my book club and I have to admit it probably isn't something I'd have picked up on my own. I found it to be an enjoyable read. The writing was beautiful - prose really. The story itself was sometimes difficult to follow, but I think this may have been intentional on the author's part - somehow enhancing the overall mystery. I'm not usually one to read a book more than twice, but this one justifies a second read.