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Introduction: Andrea Barrett's The Voyage of the Narwhal |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 472 Words, 2,885 Characters |
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After she won the National Book Award in 1996 for Ship Fever, novelist Andrea Barrett told an interviewer, "I think I really have the mind of a mid-Victorian naturalist. I really wanted to be Darwin in a skirt wandering through the Galápagos or the Amazon and naming birds and trees and palms and fishes, and I only left science because I realized that's not wh...
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...polar north. As the excerpted section of the novel suggests, the Narwhal and its crew are in for far more than they'd signed up for. Following the excerpt, Diana Postlethwaite, a professor of literature, discusses Barrett's accomplishment. Concluding the feature, Andrea Barrett reveals the personal journey that led her to The Voyage of the Narwhal in an interview with writer Jill Rendelstein.
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