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  Signals of Distress (Paperback) By (author) Jim Crace

  

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  Short Description for Signals of DistressNovember, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave,...
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  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Published: 01 January 2005
  • Format: Paperback 288 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780312424428 ISBN 10: 0312424426
  • Sales rank: 483,687

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• November, 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American sail ship off the English coast, injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 head of cattle and rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishing village. The same storm drives into port a steamer, bearing one Aymer Smith, the foolish well-intentioned prig who will deprive the town of its livelihood, free the African slave, and set into motion a whole series of unforeseeable, tragicomic events. One of the most seductive and surprising novelist at work today, once again creates a richly strange and believable world, uncannily familiar to our own.