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Description From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present Mark Haddon\'s breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter Angelica survives.
His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Whitbread Book.
About the Author Mark Haddon is the author of the bestselling novels The Red House and A Spot of Bother.
As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a major literary achievement by an author whose myriad talents are on full, vivid display.
But as much as Haddon plays with myth and meaning, his themes speak deeply to the current moment.
The language is rich and gorgeous; the conjured worlds are perfectly imagined; the plot moves forward at a ferocious pace.
In a bravura feat of storytelling, Haddon recounts his many exploits in thrilling fashion, mining the meaning of the old legends while creating parallels with the monstrous modern world Angelica inhabits.
In The Porpoise, as Angelique comes to terms with a life imprisoned on her father\'s estate, Darius morphs into Pericles, voyaging through a mythic world.
The tale appeared in many forms through the ages
Apollinus becoming the swashbuckling Pericles in Shakespeare\'s eponymous play.
This contemporary story mirrors the ancient legend of Antiochus, whose love for the daughter of his dead wife was discovered by the adventurer Appolinus of Tyre.
A young man named Darius, visiting Philippe with a business proposition, encounters Angelica and intuits their secret -- he decides to rescue her, but the attempt goes awry and he flees England by sea.
Philippe\'s obsession with the girl\'s safety morphs into something sinister and grotesque as she grows into a beautiful teen.
Description From the Whitbread and Los Angeles Times Prize-winning author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a stunningly ambitious, fantastical novel about the theft of female agency by rapacious men and the ways in which archetypal stories can warp history and the present Mark Haddon\'s breathtaking novel begins with a harrowing plane crash: Maja, the pregnant wife of the unimaginably wealthy Philippe, is killed, but their daughter Angelica survives