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Field Notes From An Extinction: A Novel
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FastPaced And Funny. Scientific And Tender. A Literary Thriller Featuring Auks. As If Hilary MantelS The Giant, OBrien Met Robinson Crusoe, Here Is A Story Of One ManS Growing Humanity Amidst Famine And Extinction.Told In The Vernacular Of The Day, This NovelAsNotebook Features A 19ThCentury Ornithologist On A Remote Irish IslandFrom The Author Of Indie Favorite The Gospel Of Orla.Written In The Form Of A 19ThCentury Notebook Of Ornithological Observations, Field Notes From An Extinction Follows The Life And Work Of One Ignatius Green, A Fictitious English Scientist Dispatched By The Royal Society To The Remote Island Of Tor Mor Off The Northern Irish Coast. Green, A Widower, Is SingleMinded And SelfRighteous, Brilliant And Bumbling. He Is Determined To Set The Scientific Record Straight On The Mating Rituals, Feeding And Care Of Hatchlings And Other Minutiae He Can Gather About The Great Auk (Pinguinus Impennis).GreenS World Is Shattered When His Monthly Goods Delivery Arrives Ravaged By The Local Irish Townsmen. His Fury At Their Impertinence Is Matched Only By His Dismay At Finding A Small Child Amid The ShipmentDirty, Abandoned, Mute, And Utterly Feral And Unmanageable. Worse, The Locals Are Growing Restless And Hungry. And There Is Talk Sweeping The Land Of A Terrifying Woman With Unnatural Power.Green Fights For His Survival Against Brigands And Hunger And, Most Fearsome, The Resolve Of A Fierce And Angry Child. And, Perhaps, For A Wider Understanding Of Family Amidst Roiling Societal Unrest.
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