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Oprah.com “Fresh Pick for Your Fall Book-Club Meeting”“Gratifyingly defies expectations.” —New York Times Book Review“[A] harrowing Arctic adventure.” —Oprah.com“An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. . . . Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding.” —JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A History of Loneliness“The great topic of Cormac James’ The Surfacing is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing. James is attuned to the psychological moment: this is a book about fatherhood and all its attendant terrors. It’s a remarkable achievement.” —COLUM McCANN, author of Let the Great World Spin and TransatlanticFar from civilization, on the hunt for Sir John Franklin’s recently lost Northwest Passage expedition, Lieutenant Morgan and his crew find themselves trapped in ever-hardening Arctic ice that threatens to break apart their ship. When Morgan realizes that a stowaway will give birth to his child in the frozen wilderness, he finds new clarity and courage to lead his men across a bleak expanse as shifting, stubborn, and treacherous as human nature itself.A tale of psychological fortitude against impossible odds, The Surfacing is also a beautifully told story of one man’s transformative journey toward fatherhood.Cormac James was born in Cork, Ireland, and lives in Montpellier, France, with his wife and son. The Surfacing is his North American debut novel.
The Surfacing, by Cormac James- Amazon Sales Rank: #1788978 in Books
- Brand: James, Cormac
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.20" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 384 pages
Review Oprah.com “Fresh Pick for Your Fall Book-Club Meeting”“Gratifyingly defies expectations.” —New York Times Book Review“Why Your Book Club Will Love It: There’s one hell of a woman on this harrowing Arctic adventure. You'll want to invite her to your next gathering. . . . Move[s] so quickly, you'll be calling each other halfway through the month, just to chat about the ending.” —Oprah.com“The Surfacing is a rare blend of adventure narrative and literary fiction, survival story and philosophical musing. . . . What emerges is a pure and transcendent vision of the joy of fatherhood—and the joy of learning to trust another person in the face of a future that may hold nothing but ice and darkness.” —Historical Novels Review“A stunning historical novel. . . . A chiseled, cool work of poetic brilliance. . . . A mesmerizing novel about never-ending ice, bitter cold, shipwrecks and fatherhood.” —Shelf Awareness for Readers“A slow-burning psychological study. . . . Underneath all the ice, there is real emotional depth.” —Kirkus Reviews“James’s sharp prose and attention to detail . . . leaves a lasting impression of this momentous journey.” —Publishers Weekly“James uses the sublime appeal of the Arctic and the extreme situation of his characters as the stage for an essentially domestic psychological novel. The Surfacing is about how people live together and how we rise to the occasion of pregnancy and birth. . . . This is a book for grownups. . . . The expedition, after all, is just a metaphor; the Impetus a ship of fools, the protagonist, Morgan, an Odysseus who’s not going anywhere. . . . . The prose matches the landscape, rigorously unadorned, returning the gaze of a reader led into a world without hiding places.” —Guardian“Although [The Surfacing] initially appears to focus on the unwinnable crusade of man against nature, at its centre is a love story—not a romance between adults but between a father and the son he learns to love. . . . A moving reminder that some of the biggest journeys in life don’t involve going anywhere at all.” —Financial Times“As much Jack London as Daniel Woodrell. . . . James cleverly fashions a tense, controlled work that is bolstered by weighty research.” —Irish Examiner “Superb. . . . [The Surfacing] is told in lean, cool, poetic prose and is utterly compelling.” —Scotland Sunday Herald“Highly original and poetic. . . . Writers as diverse as Homer, Conrad, Melville and William Golding have led the way and James picks up the baton—or oar—wielding it with great skill. . . . The writing sparkles with inventiveness. . . . Scenes break as turmoil calls all hands to deck in a battle for survival, offering an intense experience for the reader.” —Irish Times (John Boyne)“There’s nothing like the reading buzz you get when a new book by an unfamiliar name grabs you and doesn’t let go. . . . The cool precision of James’s writing draws you on as surely as if you’re there, trapped in that claustrophobic interior with the vast northern landscape stretching forever outside.” —Irish Times (Arminta Wallace)“James’s haunting novel memorably captures the desolate landscape and the triumph of the human spirit in adversity.” —Mail on Sunday“Engrossing. . . . It is James’ willingness to break free from the limitations of the traditional Arctic tale that takes the novel beyond the genre and widens its appeal. It allows the novel to venture far beyond the expedition narrative and delve into issues of fatherhood and responsibility, bringing all the complexities of the crew’s life back home under the blinding glare and unforgiving scrutiny of the Arctic sun. Beneath the surface of this expedition story, as with the stark ice-scape of the Arctic, it is in fact teeming with life.” —Irish Independent“Poetic and dramatic.” —ABC Radio National’s The Book Show“James has clearly felt the aesthetic need to sound out the gap between the extant sources of such expeditions and the way polar regions and the first men who tackled them remain almost mystically out of reach of the 21st-century mind. . . . The further the journey goes on the more we are willing as readers to kedge our way through his rendition of a madly ambitious, environmentally magnetic but inhospitable world.” —Australian“There are unforgettable descriptions of the creaking, shifting, endless ice, and the contrast with the warmth of a growing new life is very well done.” —London Times“[The Surfacing] achieves a hard-won emotional punch in its descriptions of Morgan falling in love with his son, and finally understanding the point of life as he faces death. . . . A difficult but rewarding read.” —Gutter magazine“A nuanced meditation on fatherhood and, along the way, there are some terrific portrayals of life aboard ship in the mid-19th century. . . . The joy is in the prose, lyrical but not overblown, and the winningly straightforward plot. There’s also every chance that you’ll be tempted to turn up the thermostat while reading.” —Geographical Magazine“An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. . . . Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding. Cormac James’ writing is ambitious enough to be compared with either.” —JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A History of Loneliness“The great topic of Cormac James’ The Surfacing is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing. . . . This is a book about fatherhood and all its attendant terrors. James recognizes the surfacing of love in the face of solitude. It’s a remarkable achievement, a stylish novel, full of music and quiet control.” —COLUM McCANN, author of Let the Great World Spin and Transatlantic“Cormac James’ writing is very assured, with a harsh poetic edge. His evocations of barren landscape, sea weather, pack ice, and frozen skies are powerful and compelling.” —ROSE TREMAIN, author of Music & Silence and Merivel: A Man of His Time“I read The Surfacing in Gjoa Haven, where Franklin Expedition spirits seem to cry out on the winter winds, and Cormac James’ writing spoke through the midday twilight with the chill of a voice from the distant past. Like the High Arctic world that he masterfully conjures, his storytelling is beautifully stark and captivating. The Surfacing lures with the tundra’s promise: new life can come from death.” —PAUL WATSON, Arctic correspondent for the Toronto Star, and author of Where War Lives
About the Author Cormac James was born in Cork, Ireland, and lives in Montpellier, France, with his wife and son. He has published short fiction in Columbia, 3rd Bed, and The Dublin Review. The Surfacing is his North American debut novel.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Great yarn! By Autumn Turner This was a great read. Characters were intriguing and I felt like I was in the bitter cold with them on their journey. The author did his research and combined with his writing talent, he makes my list of authors to watch. There will be no hesitation in my picking up his next novel.I received a copy of this novel for review from Edelweiss.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Another Best New Fiction Book of the Week Pick By Vickie I. Fang Cormac James’ hauntingly beautiful novel, The Surfacing, tells the story of the men on one of many English ships in the 1800s that explored the Artic in search of a previous failed expedition. They are making the voyage not because they have any real chance of success, but because “The drawing rooms of London will not tolerate anything less.” No one but their reckless and vainglorious captain has any sort of enthusiasm for the trip; their ship reaches the rendezvous point last, meaning that they will be assigned the worst possible route; winter comes as early and brutally as it always does, and the ice closes in. Then they discover a stowaway onboard – a woman impregnated by the ship’s first mate.Her presence, and especially the imminent delivery, only add to the first mate’s sense of claustrophobic dread. When at last it came time for his son to be born, he listens and imagines “a blank page being slowly torn in two. The rip has a will of its own, wanders off, like a fault line in a solid wall. Flaws appearing places she would have sworn were sound. But that solid surface – it is the merest skim of plaster over old cracks. Underneath, all the old wounds are still open, and the pain knows exactly where they are. It knows her better than she knows herself. It has been studying her secretly, all her life.”This, then is the heart of the novel – the wounds that are still open and the pain that knows how to find them. Amid the austere magnificence of a relentless physical environment, the men and woman of the ship endure their fate with much fortitude and little complaint, perhaps because complaint would be trivial in a world like this one. With a near perfect unity of setting, style, emotion, and theme, James traps his characters, and the reader, squarely within that fault line just as the ship itself is trapped within the ice. There are dreams, of course, of a different sort of life, and those dreams serve only to intensify the desperation of their circumstances. “He felt the breach between himself and them, the men of renown. He had read their books. For them, there had been far horizons, all around. He had gone to the windows they had looked through and found them walled up. . . . From where he stood, there was never anything further off than the next step, the next sip of water, the prodigious pain in his legs.”In pain, longing to escape, and surrounded on all sides by lethal, implacable beauty, they journey on, searching, not so much for the lost explorer as for the answer to their own question. Can I do what is demanded of me? Will I be good enough? I was engrossed by their quest and the intensity of their inner and outer worlds.Best New Fiction is a blog run by Queens MFA graduates to celebrate great new novels and short stories. Go to http://bestnewfiction.wordpress.com to learn about more exciting new books.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Ethereal By Steven M. Anthony This work of fiction uses as its backdrop the disastrous 19th century Franklin Expedition, which was mysteriously lost while trying to discover the Northwest Passage. Franklin commanded two British ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, which became icebound in the Canadian Arctic and presumably perished with all aboard.The Surfacing follows the adventure of one of the rescue ships sent to discover the fate of the Franklin Expedition. As you might imagine, the narrative is one of extreme privation and disastrous results. Having read the Dan Simmons novel The Terror, which also had as its basis the Franklin Expedition, I was aware of the background, as well as what one can expect from attempting Arctic Exploration. Much of the description of daily life and heroic effort involved with being icebound was, nevertheless, fascinating.The tone of the dialogue and the writer’s point of view is almost ethereal, written at some times as though seen as a dream, viewed through gauzy cloth. While this works well at times, at others it becomes somewhat confusing. I must confess to being disappointed with the unresolved ending. I suspect that there will be some fans of high-brow literature that will rave over the method in which the story is told, however those looking for a good story will be teased but likely ultimately left unfulfilled.I would be remiss if I didn't mention the almost unforgivable failure of the author to include any maps. When penning a novel involving exploration, which frequently makes reference to places and directions, how hard would it be to include a map so the reader can follow the progress of the explorers and get some feel for the geography involved. Hopefully, this will be rectified in the final version released to the public.
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