The whispering muse
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Author
Contributors
Cribb, Victoria translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012].
Physical Desc
143 pages ; 20 cm
Status
Sparks Library - Adult Fiction
SCIENCE FICTION SJON 2012
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SCIENCE FICTION SJON 2012
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2012].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
American edition of the English translation originally published in 2012 by Telegram, Great Britain.
Description
Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.
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"Already celebrated far beyond his native Iceland, the novels of Sjón arrive on waves of praise from writers, critics, and readers worldwide. Sjón has won countless international awards and earned ringing comparisons to Borges, Calvino, and Iceland's other literary superstar, the Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. The Whispering Muse is his masterpiece so far. The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on its quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender but masterful, brilliant, and always entertaining novel that ranges deftly from the comic to the mythic as it weaves together tales of antiquity with the modern world in a voice so singular as to seem possessed."--,Provided by Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sjón., & Cribb, V. (2012). The whispering muse . Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sjón,, 1962- and Victoria Cribb. 2012. The Whispering Muse. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sjón,, 1962- and Victoria Cribb. The Whispering Muse Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sjón,, and Victoria Cribb. The Whispering Muse Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.
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