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Jamrach´s Menagerie
Carol Birch
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Description for Jamrach´s Menagerie
Paperback. 'Put Moby Dick, Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into a pot, add a pinch of Dickens, and you will get the flavour of Carol Birch's hugely entertaining novel.' Mail on Sunday Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244. 352 pages. 'Put Moby Dick, Treasure Island and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner into a pot, add a pinch of Dickens, and you will get the flavour of Carol Birch's hugely entertaining novel.' Mail on Sunday. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight: 254.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011
Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And before he knows it, he finds himself at the docks waving goodbye to his beloved Ishbel and boarding a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. With his friend Tim at his side, Jaffy's journey will push faith, love and friendship to their utmost limits.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
255g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847676573
SKU
V9781847676573
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-67
About Carol Birch
Carol Birch is the author of ten previous novels, including Scapegallows (2008) and Turn Again Home (2003) which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She has also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the David Higham Award for Best First Novel. Jamrach's Menagerie was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2011 and the London Book Award.
Reviews for Jamrach´s Menagerie
An imaginative tour-de-force encompassing the sights and smells of 19th-century London and the wild sea. . . Gripping, superbly written and a delight.
Times
Riveting. Birch is masterful at evoking period and place . . . A teeming exhibition of the beautiful and the bizarre.
Sunday Times
A captivating yarn of high seas and even higher drama.
Guardian
Magical . . . A sustained feat of imagination and diligent research.
Daily Mail
One of the best stories I've ever read . . . A completely original book.
A. S. Byatt Carol Birch's fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point . . . marvelous and terrifying.
Sunday Times
Never mind not being able to put it down-there is a 100-page section in Jamrach's Menagerie in which you will not be able to breathe. Rarely have I read a book that so deftly marries high literary value with unbearable suspense.
Robert Hough, author of THE FINAL CONFESSION OF MABEL STARK Sucks you into a world of the senses, from the filthy streets of Victorian London to the rolling hills of the South Seas. Jaffy Brown, the gifted narrator at the center of this mythic tale, rivals David Copperfield and Ishmael of Moby-Dick with his gift for storytelling. His 'rare old time' becomes, in due course, a fable of friendship, and a tribute to human survival. What a beautifully written and engaging novel!
Jay Parini, author of THE LAST STATION Birch is a naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion.
Guardian
Whenever I read of people moaning on about the dire state of British fiction, I think of Carol Birch (and people like her) who are writing such good novels . . . her forte is feelings , about which she is so acute.
Margaret Forster
Times
Riveting. Birch is masterful at evoking period and place . . . A teeming exhibition of the beautiful and the bizarre.
Sunday Times
A captivating yarn of high seas and even higher drama.
Guardian
Magical . . . A sustained feat of imagination and diligent research.
Daily Mail
One of the best stories I've ever read . . . A completely original book.
A. S. Byatt Carol Birch's fiction continues to stretch bodies and minds to breaking point . . . marvelous and terrifying.
Sunday Times
Never mind not being able to put it down-there is a 100-page section in Jamrach's Menagerie in which you will not be able to breathe. Rarely have I read a book that so deftly marries high literary value with unbearable suspense.
Robert Hough, author of THE FINAL CONFESSION OF MABEL STARK Sucks you into a world of the senses, from the filthy streets of Victorian London to the rolling hills of the South Seas. Jaffy Brown, the gifted narrator at the center of this mythic tale, rivals David Copperfield and Ishmael of Moby-Dick with his gift for storytelling. His 'rare old time' becomes, in due course, a fable of friendship, and a tribute to human survival. What a beautifully written and engaging novel!
Jay Parini, author of THE LAST STATION Birch is a naturally literary writer who can, with a simple image, evoke the deepest emotion.
Guardian
Whenever I read of people moaning on about the dire state of British fiction, I think of Carol Birch (and people like her) who are writing such good novels . . . her forte is feelings , about which she is so acute.
Margaret Forster