![]() Joining as ships doctor is Irishman Patrick Sumner a disgraced former British army surgeon with a murky past in India. ![]() ![]() a brute, a vacuum into which men and boys are sucked and do not emerge alive". We meet Henry Drax a harpooner who rapes and kills a child, ". The novel opens in Hull where the industry is under threat with paraffin and coal oil replacing whale oil. The north water of the title is the North Water Polynya, to which ships sail in the hunt and kill whales. The North Water was published by Henry Holt and Company (USA) and Simon & Schuster (UK)/ Scribner (UK). ![]() McGuire's focus of study and field of interest is American realist literature which is defined as, ".the faithful representation of reality" The Guardian 's reviewer writes, "The strength of The North Water lies in its well-researched detail and persuasive descriptions of the cold, violence, cruelty and the raw, bloody business of whale-killing." The headline of the Independent Book Review "Ian McGuire, The North Water: 'Subtle as a harpoon in the head, but totally gripping', book review" reinforces the realist aspect of the writing. The North Water is a 2016 novel by English author and academic Ian McGuire. ![]()
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