The seal wife

a novel

By Harrison, Kathryn

Publishers Summary:
Sent north to Anchorage, Alaska, to establish an observatory in 1915, Bigelow, a young scientist, finds himself unprepared for the loneliness of a frontier railroad town and becomes driven by his all-consuming love for an enigmatic woman known as the Aleut.

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ISBN
978-0-37550-629-1
Publisher
New York : Random House, c2002.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2002

Set in Anchorage in 1915, Harrison's fifth novel follows a newly arrived scientist named Bigelow who has been sent to build a weather observatory. Harsh conditions and a small population of women affect Bigelow profoundly, so much so that he becomes obsessed with an unattainable female who doesn't speak or show any emotion toward him and is known simply as "the Aleut...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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