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The Bass Rock
First Title Value for Searching:
The Bass Rock
Personal Author:
Edition:
First American Edition.
Physical Description:
362 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"The lives of three women weave together across centuries in the dazzling new book from the Granta Best of Young British Novelist, author of All the Birds, Singing. Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has always borne witness to the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries, the fates of three women are inextricably linked to this place and to each other. Sarah, accused of being a witch, is fleeing for her life. Ruth, in the aftermath of the Second World War, is navigating a new marriage and the strange waters of the local community. Six decades later, Viv, still mourning the death of her father, is cataloguing Ruth's belongings in the now-empty house. As each woman's story unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear that their choices are circumscribed, in ways big and small, by the men who seek to control them. But in sisterhood there is also the possibility of survival and a new way of life. Intricately crafted and compulsively readable, The Bass Rock burns bright with love and fury--a devastating indictment of violence against women, and an empowering portrait of their resilience through the ages"--
Publication Info:
New York : Pantheon Books, 2020.
Subject:
Women -- Fiction.
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Survival -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Human females
Wimmin
Woman
Womon
Womyn
Human relations
Interpersonal relationships
Personal relations
Relations, Interpersonal
Relationships, Interpersonal
Social behavior
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Survival skills
SAILS ISBN:
9781101871881