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For the very first time in paperback, this is actually the best-selling book by “an author of remarkable gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Spectacular, hypnotic, extra, The Seal Wife tells the tale of a scientist and his consuming love for a woman known simply whilst the Aleut, a woman who will not talk. A book of interests equally generative and harmful, The Seal Wife examines the character of desire and its capability to launch a person beyond outside conference and herself. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re creates the Alaskan frontier throughout the amount of the Very First World-War as she examines with heavy comprehension the inside landscape of the individual psyche—a landscape strangely constant with the splendor and terror of the icy frontier and the storms that blow-over our planet and its encounter.