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| Original Title: | Dark Matter |
| ISBN: | 1409123782 (ISBN13: 9781409123781) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Shirley Jackson Award Nominee for Novel (Finalist) (2010), Prix Masterton for Roman traduit (2013) |
Michelle Paver
Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.96 | 9949 Users | 1367 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dark Matter |
| Author | : | Michelle Paver |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | October 21st 2010 by Orion |
| Categories | : | Horror. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Mystery. Paranormal. Ghosts. Fantasy |
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January 1937. Clouds of war are gathering over a fogbound London. Twenty-eight year old Jack is poor, lonely, and desperate to change his life, so when he's offered the chance to join an Arctic expedition, he jumps at it. Spirits are high as the ship leaves Norway: five men and eight huskies, crossing the Barents Sea by the light of the midnight sun. At last they reach the remote, uninhabited bay where they will camp for the next year, Gruhuken, but the Arctic summer is brief. As night returns to claim the land, Jack feels a creeping unease. One by one, his companions are forced to leave. He faces a stark choice: stay or go. Soon he will see the last of the sun, as the polar night engulfs the camp in months of darkness. Soon he will reach the point of no return--when the sea will freeze, making escape impossible. Gruhuken is not uninhabited. Jack is not alone. Something walks there in the dark...Rating Appertaining To Books Dark Matter
Ratings: 3.96 From 9949 Users | 1367 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books Dark Matter
Ghost of "Gruhuken" - 4.5 stars.... I am immensely fascinated with the Artic so anytime I find a book set in the area, I snap them up. I also love a good ghost story so if you combine the two I'm in heaven! And that's exactly what you'll find in Dark Matter so I knew going into it, that it just had to be good. In 1937, a 28 year old, down-on-his luck guy named Jack, is offered the chance to join an Artic expedition to a remote uninhabited area named Gruhuken. From the start, the expedition isDark Matter by Michelle Paver is a slow burning ghost story; slowly the tension builds and builds until... The story kicks off on 7th January 1937, the first entry being written in the journal of Jack Miller who is preparing for an expedition to Gruhuken. This uninhabited location in Arctic is the back drop of this chilling story, the atmosphere and solitude all playing a role in building the tension within this story. The relationship between Jack and his companions Gus, Algie, Hugo and Teddy
Thanks Missy! The book demands a sequel all about Isaak's further adventures. Although now that I think about it, I don't want him to have further
Theres no dawn and no dusk. Time has no meaning. Weve left the real world, and entered a land of dreams.In this period ghost story, Jack, an office clerk, joins Gus, Algie, Hugh and Teddy to prepare for an expedition to the Artic. Jacks role in the team is a wireless operator. The story is told through Jacks eyes.Jack seems to have a grudge when it comes to bonding with the others. His insecurities come from class differences.The 1937 Spitsbergen Expedition is blighted from the beginning.The
perfectly executed little ghost story set in the Arctic wastes in the late 1930s, featuring the adventures of AN AWESOME HUSKY NAMED ISAAK and I suppose some humans as well.so Jack - a poor, depressed, dog-hating, lower class and very class conscious 28-year-old - finds the perfect solution to his angst and alienation: he will join a small expedition to the abandoned mining outpost of Gruhuken in the Arctic circle. there he will find meaning to his life, camaraderie and fellowship and an intense
Publishers Summary January 1937. Jack Miller has just about run out of options. His shoes have worn through, he can't afford to heat his rented room in Tooting, and he longs to use his training as a specialist wireless operator instead of working in his dead-end job. When he is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates, he brushes off his apprehensions and convinces himself to join them.As the young men set sail from a gloomy
Michelle Paver is most famous for writing a series of fantasy novels for younger readers - which I have not read - and Dark Matter, subtitled A Ghost Story, is her first novel for adult readers.The book opens in London at the eve of World War 2, where a young man named Jack is having a rough time: despite his Oxford education he has trouble finding employment and starting a career as a physicist, and has to work as an export clerk - a job he dislikes intensely. Jack is lonely and poor, down to
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