The Raft by Arabella Edge
Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon for his painting Charging Chasseur - completed at the tender age of twenty-one - Gericault finds himself, seven years later, distracted and lovesick due to his secret affair with his benefactor-uncle’s young wife, Alexandrine, still desperately searching for the subject of his next tableau. Then, at the house of his neighbour, he hears about the French frigate Medusa, shipwrecked off the shores of the West African coast. With tales of betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism, this was a catastrophe that horrified the French public - and Gericault is duly fascinated. When he manages to track down two of the raft’s survivors and invites them to his home to discover what really happened during those fifteen days at sea, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject. Praise for The Company `Pitched somewhere between Robinson Crusoe and Lord of the Flies, this is a thoroughly diabolical tale in the best sense’ Daily Mail `We’re led into the mind of a marooned madman via a lapidary, first-person prose style that speaks vividly to the senses. Nimbly balanced on a tightrope of acute intelligence and ruthless psychopathy’ Time Out `Edge is almost as good as Patrick O’Brian in her re-creation of life on a sailing ship…A second novel please. And soon’ The Times
Arabella Edge studied at Bristol University and left for Australia in 1992. Her first novel, The Company, won Best First Book in the 2001 Commonwealth Writer's Prize in the South Pacific region, and was shortlisted for Australia's Miles Franklin Award 2001. She has since written The Raft and Fields of Ice, which was published in 2011. She lives with her husband Nick Gaze on the east coast of Tasmania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780330418478 |
| ISBN 10 | 0330418475 |
| Title | The Raft |
| Author | Arabella Edge |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2006-04-07 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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