- Conduct of life, Recycling (Waste), Fiction, Science fiction
In America's Gulf Coast region, grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life...
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Paolo Bacigalupi
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Turtleback Books, Little, Brown
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780316081689
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