Songs of the humpback whale
By: Jodi Picoult
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780753182123; 9780753182130
Subjects: Fiction; Marriage; Oceanographers
Description: This novel portrays an emotionally charged marriage that changes course in one explosive moment. For years, Jane Jones has lived in the shadow of her husband, renowned San Diego oceanographer Oliver Jones. But during an escalating argument, Jane turns on him with an alarming volatility. In anger and fear, Jane leaves with their teenage daughter, Rebecca, for a cross-country odyssey charted by letters from her brother Joley, guiding them to his Massachusetts apple farm, where surprising self-discoveries await. Now Oliver, an expert at tracking humpback whales across vast oceans, will search for his wife across a continent - and find a new way to see the world, his family, and himself: through her eyes.
Notes: Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Faber and Faber, 1992; London: Pocket, 2001.