Star of the SeaHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 - 401 pagina's Award-winning author Joseph O'Connor's Star of the Sea is a New York Times Notable Book and "thoroughly gripping" (People) historical mystery. In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go. As urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion. |
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The LeaveTaking | 1 |
The Victim | 4 |
The Cause | 17 |
The Hunger | 24 |
The Ordinary Passengers | 32 |
The Visions at Delphi | 36 |
The Subject | 43 |
The Thing Not Said | 58 |
The Schoolmaster | 200 |
The Law | 217 |
The Married Man | 222 |
The Criminals | 238 |
The Unpaid Account | 247 |
The Shipping Reports | 261 |
The Denunciation | 266 |
The Lost Strangers | 273 |
The Map of Ireland | 69 |
The Angels | 77 |
The BalladMaker | 85 |
The Secret | 95 |
The Bequest | 107 |
The StoryTeller | 118 |
The Father and His Son | 140 |
The Power of Dark Things | 151 |
The Suitor | 155 |
The Translator | 171 |
The Thief | 175 |
The HardLuck Man | 188 |
The Prisoner | 276 |
The Guest of Honour | 283 |
From The Blight | 311 |
The Border | 320 |
The Doctor | 337 |
The Warning Beacons | 343 |
The Anchorage | 347 |
The Murder | 355 |
The Discovery | 367 |
From A Miscellany of the Ancient Songs of Ireland | 372 |
The Haunted Man | 375 |
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