The seal wife
Subtitle: a novel
By: Kathryn Harrison.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Kites -- Design and construction -- Fiction; Meteorological stations -- Fiction; Meteorologists -- Fiction; Mute persons -- Fiction; Anchorage (Alaska) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the story of a young scientist's consuming love for a woman known as the Aleut, a woman who never speaks, who refuses to reveal so much as her name.".

"Born and educated in midwestern cities, Bigelow is sent north by the United States government to establish a weather observatory in Anchorage. But what could have prepared him for the loneliness of a railroad town with more than two thousand men and only a handful of women, or for winter nights twenty hours long?

And what can protect him from obsession - obsession with a woman who seems in her silence and mystery to possess the power to destroy his life forever, and obsession with the weather kite he invents, a kite he hopes will fly higher than any has ever flown before and will penetrate the secrets of the heavens?"--BOOK JACKET.