Field Notes from an Extinction
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Book Overview A unique and richly imagined novel."--Graeme Macrae Burnet, New York Times Book Review Fast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A li...
A unique and richly imagined novel."
--Graeme Macrae Burnet, New York Times Book Review
--Graeme Macrae Burnet, New York Times Book Review
Fast-paced and funny. Scientific and tender. A literary thriller featuring Auks. As if Hilary Mantel's The Giant, O'Brien met Robinson Crusoe, here is a story of one man's growing humanity amidst famine and extinction.
Told in the vernacular of the day, this novel-as-notebook features a 19th-century ornithologist on a remote Irish island--from the author of indie favorite The Gospel of Orla.
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Written in the form of a 19th-century notebook of ornithological observations, Field Notes from an Extinction follows the life and work of one Ignatius Green, a fictitious English scientist dispatched by the Royal Society to the remote island of Tor Mor off the northern Irish coast. Green, a widower, is single-minded and self-righteous, brilliant and bumbling. He is determined to set the scientific record straight on the mating rituals, feeding and care of hatchlings and other minutiae he can gather about the Great Auk (pinguinus impennis).
Green's world is shattered when his monthly goods delivery arrives ravaged by the local Irish townsmen. His fury at their impertinence is matched only by his dismay at finding a small child amid the shipment--dirty, abandoned, mute, and utterly feral and unmanageable. Worse, the locals are growing restless and hungry. And there is talk sweeping the land of a terrifying woman with unnatural power.
Green fights for his survival against brigands and hunger and, most fearsome, the resolve of a fierce and angry child. And, perhaps, for a wider understanding of family amidst roiling societal unrest.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 272 | Language: English | Publisher: SEVEN STORIES | ISBN: 1644215349
FormatPaperback
Pages272
LanguageEnglish
ISBN1644215349
EAN9781644215340
PublisherSEVEN STORIES
Publication Date2026-03-03
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.65 Pounds
Length8.2 Inches
Width5.4 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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