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Remarkable Journeys: Commentary on Andrea Barrett's The Voyage of the Narwhal |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Diana Postlethwaite |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,970 Words, 18,960 Characters |
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When Andrea Barrett won the 1996 National Book Award for Ship Fever and Other Stories, more than a few eyebrows were raised. Who was this Andrea Barrett, now placed in the company of writers like John Updike (a 1982 winner) and Philip Roth (1995)? Short story collections are rarely given an NBA nod; in this genre, Barrett was joining the stellar ranks of Katherine Anne Porter (who won in 1966) and Flannery O'Connor (1972).
Barrett had published four novels in rapid succession during the eight years preceding Ship Fever: Lucid Stars (1988), Secret Harmonies (1989), The Middle Kingdom (1991), and Forms of Water (1993)--contemporary domestic fictions that earned her critical comparisons with the work of Gail Godwin, Anne Tyler, and Sue Miller. Barrett seemed destined to be known as a minor...
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...plore," Zeke says early in the novel. "How can anyone bear to live and die without accomplishing something remarkable?" Barrett's literary expedition sets out to explore territory as vast as the Arctic itself: friendship, feminism, nineteenth-century America, cultural imperialism, and the natural world; the ways we make science, and the ways we make art. It's a most remarkable accomplishment.
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