The Monsters of St. Helena
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Picador
Published: January 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312422011
Subjects: Modern fiction; Historical - General; Fiction / General; General; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
First sentence: Sixty million years ago the plates beneath what we now think fo as the South Atlantic Ocean buckled slightly, sending up a range of fiery, spewing volcanoes, while at the same time giving way to an even more cataclysmic flood, so deep and wide that it eventually swallowed the furious mountains entirely.