North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION

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.

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ISBN : 9781646053582
BY (AUTHOR) Rutherford, Ethan
PUBLISHER : Deep Vellum Publishing	PUBLICATION DATE : April 24, 2025
COUNTRY OF PUBLICATION : United States	IMPRINT : Deep Vellum Publishing
LANGUAGE : English	AGE : General
PRODUCT FORM : Paperback / softback

DIMENSION : 203 mm x 127 mm

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