Doggerland / Ben Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Ben (Poet), author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wind power plants.

Wind power plants--Fiction.

Missing persons--Fiction.

Missing persons.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Genre:

Dystopian fiction.

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Dogger land

Place of Publication:

London : 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.

Summary:

In the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm stretches for thousands of acres. The Boy, who is no longer really a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work, scoured by wind and salt, as the waves roll, dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine fields. Land is only a memory. So too is the Boy's father, who worked on the turbines before him, and disappeared. The boy has been sent by the Company to take his place, but the question of where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no answer. As his companion dredges the sea for lost things, the Boy sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day, from the limitless water, a plan for escape emerges.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780008313371

0008313377

9780008313364

0008313369

OCLC:

1090525491