The curve of the world / a novel by Marcus Stevens.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevens, Marcus, 1959-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--Congo River Valley--Fiction.

Americans.

Democratic Republic of the Congo--Fiction.

Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Wilderness survival--Fiction.

Wilderness survival.

Congo River Valley.

Congo (Democratic Republic).

Congo River Valley--Fiction.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

Married people--Fiction.

Married people.

Rain forests--Fiction.

Rain forests.

Genre:

Fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Suspense fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 302 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Washington Square Press, 2003.

Summary:

Stranded alone in the Congo, an American businessman must survive the jungle and face himself in this brilliantly "tense and evocative" (USA TODAY) first novel. Lewis Burke is an ordinary New York business executive catapulted into extraordinary circumstances when his plane makes an emergency landing in the middle of the Congo, only to be commandeered by armed rebels. He escapes to the jungle, but cannot escape from himself as he faces his darkest fears and deepest disappointments: his crumbling marriage; his distant relationship with his blind, seven-year-old son, Shane; and the lack of meaning in his life. Lewis finds his will and strength tested on all sides--from the unrelenting heat to the battle against thirst and hunger--even as his wife, Helen, and Shane come to Africa in a vain attempt to find him. Salvation comes in the form of a young Congolese boy, who leads Lewis to safety and to a part of himself he thought he had lost forever.

Notes:

Originally published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002.

ISBN:

0743470826

9780743470827

OCLC:

53051203