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PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
ISBN-101646053583
ISBN-139781646053582
eBay Product ID (ePID)27065846590
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Book TitleNorth Sun : Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Number of Pages386 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Sea Stories, Historical
Publication Year2025
GenreFiction
AuthorEthan Rutherford
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2024-035808
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240820
Reviews"Chronicling in brisk and poetic prose their numerous travails, needless deaths, and hidden perversions, Rutherford plumbs the depths men will sink to in extracting what they desire from nature and their fellow man. This harsh and stark ballad of a bygone time will move readers." --Publishers Weekly "I don't know how, but Ethan Rutherford freaking did it. He wrote the Moby Dick for our times." --Emily Barton, author of The Book of Esther "Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, North Sun feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading." --Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language "This book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! " North Sun is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating. How I shall miss its company, how I do long for Old Sorrel. In short, I consider this completely original tale of man and nature and ocean an absolute triumph." --Edward Carey, author of Edith Holler "Rutherford's lyrical, spare prose has a cadence like the movement of the sea."-- Harvard Review Online, Longlisted for the 2025 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Audacious... A classically styled novel that sounds a very contemporary alarm." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Genius... Rutherford takes full advantage of the freedom his commitment to originality grants him to lead the novel into far stranger and more intriguing territory than its opening act might suggest."-- The Baffler "Chronicling in brisk and poetic prose their numerous travails, needless deaths, and hidden perversions, Rutherford plumbs the depths men will sink to in extracting what they desire from nature and their fellow man. This harsh and stark ballad of a bygone time will move readers." --Publishers Weekly " A feverish historical novel on the hubris of the exploitation of the natural world." --Independent Book Review , starred review "Rutherford's lyrical, spare prose has a cadence like the movement of the sea." -- Harvard Review Online "I don't know how, but Ethan Rutherford freaking did it. He wrote the Moby Dick for our times." --Emily Barton, author of The Book of Esther "Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, North Sun feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading." --Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language "This book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! " North Sun is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating. How I shall miss its company, how I do long for Old Sorrel. In short, I consider this completely original tale of man and nature and ocean an absolute triumph." --Edward Carey, author of Edith Holler "Unspeakably gorgeous. Absolutely soaked in atmosphere, this whaling tale is haunting, ethereal, wispy. The journey of Arnold Lovejoy is one that could rival Ahab himself. This will be one of my top books of the year." --Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books, "Chronicling in brisk and poetic prose their numerous travails, needless deaths, and hidden perversions, Rutherford plumbs the depths men will sink to in extracting what they desire from nature and their fellow man. This harsh and stark ballad of a bygone time will move readers." --Publishers Weekly "I don't know how, but Ethan Rutherford freaking did it. He wrote the Moby Dick for our times." --Emily Barton, author of The Book of Esther "Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, North Sun feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading." --Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language "This book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! " North Sun is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating. How I shall miss its company, how I do long for Old Sorrel. In short, I consider this completely original tale of man and nature and ocean an absolute triumph." --Edward Carey, author of Edith Holler, 2025 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction 2025 Longlist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize "Audacious... A classically styled novel that sounds a very contemporary alarm." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Genius... Rutherford takes full advantage of the freedom his commitment to originality grants him to lead the novel into far stranger and more intriguing territory than its opening act might suggest."-- The Baffler "Chronicling in brisk and poetic prose their numerous travails, needless deaths, and hidden perversions, Rutherford plumbs the depths men will sink to in extracting what they desire from nature and their fellow man. This harsh and stark ballad of a bygone time will move readers." --Publishers Weekly " A feverish historical novel on the hubris of the exploitation of the natural world." --Independent Book Review , starred review "Rutherford's lyrical, spare prose has a cadence like the movement of the sea." -- Harvard Review Online "I don't know how, but Ethan Rutherford freaking did it. He wrote the Moby Dick for our times." --Emily Barton, author of The Book of Esther "Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, North Sun feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading." --Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language "This book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! " North Sun is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating. How I shall miss its company, how I do long for Old Sorrel. In short, I consider this completely original tale of man and nature and ocean an absolute triumph." --Edward Carey, author of Edith Holler "Unspeakably gorgeous. Absolutely soaked in atmosphere, this whaling tale is haunting, ethereal, wispy. The journey of Arnold Lovejoy is one that could rival Ahab himself. This will be one of my top books of the year." --Andrew Preston, CoffeeTree Books, "I don't know how, but Ethan Rutherford freaking did it. He wrote the Moby Dick for our times." --Emily Barton, author of The Book of Esther "Haunting, hallucinatory, and unrelentingly gorgeous, North Sun feels as real as a history and as strange as a myth. The depths of Rutherford's imagination left me enraptured and unsettled. This is the kind of book that will keep talking to you long after you've finished reading." --Jennifer duBois, author of The Last Language "This book is bonkers and I loved every rollicking, awkward, solemn, gorgeously written, isolated, melancholic, beautiful moment I spent with Arnold Lovejoy, his thoughts, his crew, the unending ice, and the sea, the empty-not-so-empty sea. Ethan Rutherford's North Sun is a damn harrowing sorrowful delight." --Manuel Gonzales, author of The Regional Office is Under Attack! " North Sun is a deeply wonderful, strange and magnificent book. I swam through its unique pages with glee and horror and joy and came up for air gasping at what a deeply brilliant writer Ethan Rutherford is. The novel is completely exhilarating. How I shall miss its company, how I do long for Old Sorrel. In short, I consider this completely original tale of man and nature and ocean an absolute triumph." --Edward Carey, author of Edith Holler
Dewey Decimal813/.6
SynopsisFrom "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther -an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the American whaling industry. Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange. With one foot firmly planted in the traditional sea-voyage narrative, and another in a blazing mythos of its own, this debut novel looks unsparingly at the cost of environmental exploitation and predation, and in doing so feverishly sings not only of the past, but to the present and future as well., From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther --an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and endurance during the waning days of the American whaling industry. Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange. With one foot firmly planted in the traditional sea-voyage narrative, and another in a blazing mythos of its own, this debut novel looks unsparingly at the cost of environmental exploitation and predation, and in doing so feverishly sings not only of the past, but to the present and future as well.
LC Classification NumberPS3618.U7785N67 2025
