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Ocean Sea
Ocean Sea
Author: Alessandro Baricco
At the Almayer Inn, a remote shoreline hotel, an artist dips his brush in a cup of ocean water to paint a portrait of the sea. A scientist pens love letters to a woman he has yet to meet. An adulteress searches for relief from her proclivity to fall in love. And a sixteen-year-old girl seeks a cure from a mysterious condition which science has f...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780241140727
ISBN-10: 0241140722
Publication Date: 6/27/2000
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Well written and interesting format translated from Italian. Soothing, picturesque and inventive.
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It's a nice read. A little tedious in some places, but pretty and whimsical in the rest. The only way I can think to describe this book is "light". It's almost like a conglomeration of short bed time stories for adults that were taken apart and then neatly put back together to make a book.


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