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Winner of Canada Reads 2013 and longlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's Day storm. All eighty-four men aboard died. February is the story of Helen O'Mara, one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns on the rig. It begins in the present-day, more than twenty-five years later, but spirals back again and again to the "February" that persists in Helen's mind and heart.Writing at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile, before we truly come home. This is a profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of our best writers.
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"[Moore's] images are so sure-footed they give you the impression of having been rendered not merely in the best words available but in the only words imaginable." -- Todd Pruzan
"Moore transcends language and goes straight for the nervous system." -- Susan Salter Reynolds
"Moore's writing is on a level all her own. Her sentences ignite, and her word choices are often genius. She writes with such detail and emotion... moving confidently from one perspective to another." -- Helena Ubinas
"Lisa Moore... writes line after line, paragraph after paragraph about plain, grim, North American life made beautiful by the telling of it." -- Alan Cheuse
"Eloquently written . . . Moore has great strengths as a writer, chiefly in her powers of description. . . . [In "February" she] provides vivid, cinematic snapshots of family life . . . [and] a woman's return from the long exile of her grief."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Lisa Moore's artfully fragmented narrative movingly reflects Helen's shattered psyche. But like a ray of wintry sunshine piercing the ocean fog, the novel's conclusion holds out hope that frozen hearts can thaw and even made-up minds can be changed."--"The Boston Globe"
"[An] extraordinary, unusually philosophical and human novel."--"The Irish Times"
"Assured . . . [with] supple, graceful prose . . . Moore's firm grip and fine craft make something special from this novel of disaster and its aftermath."--"The Independent "(UK)
"Lisa Moore can do impressive things with plain language."--"Star Tribune" (Minneapolis)
"Quietly reflective . . . Evocative . . . Expressive."--"Publishers Weekly "
"Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is, I think, the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human. . . . [Lisa Moore] gets life. . . . Exquisitely mindful . . . Luminous."--"The Globe and Mail"
"Deftly executed and moving."--"The Star" (Toronto)
"Emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore's work. . . . ["February"] is hauntingly beautiful . . . [and its] subtle styling, sparse dialogue and sombre tone succeed at shining a light not only upon the impact of the Ocean Ranger disaster, but also upon the lasting aftermath of death itself. . . . Moore pens another triumph."--" The Chronicle Herald "(Canada)
"Moore's ability to write originally and passionately about love and death relies on her eye for detail and her psychologica
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"Moore transcends language and goes straight for the nervous system." -- Susan Salter Reynolds
"Moore's writing is on a level all her own. Her sentences ignite, and her word choices are often genius. She writes with such detail and emotion... moving confidently from one perspective to another." -- Helena Ubinas
"Lisa Moore... writes line after line, paragraph after paragraph about plain, grim, North American life made beautiful by the telling of it." -- Alan Cheuse
"Eloquently written . . . Moore has great strengths as a writer, chiefly in her powers of description. . . . [In "February" she] provides vivid, cinematic snapshots of family life . . . [and] a woman's return from the long exile of her grief."--"The New York Times Book Review"
"Lisa Moore's artfully fragmented narrative movingly reflects Helen's shattered psyche. But like a ray of wintry sunshine piercing the ocean fog, the novel's conclusion holds out hope that frozen hearts can thaw and even made-up minds can be changed."--"The Boston Globe"
"[An] extraordinary, unusually philosophical and human novel."--"The Irish Times"
"Assured . . . [with] supple, graceful prose . . . Moore's firm grip and fine craft make something special from this novel of disaster and its aftermath."--"The Independent "(UK)
"Lisa Moore can do impressive things with plain language."--"Star Tribune" (Minneapolis)
"Quietly reflective . . . Evocative . . . Expressive."--"Publishers Weekly "
"Moore offers us, elegantly, exultantly, the very consciousness of her characters. In this way, she does more than make us feel for them. She makes us feel what they feel, which is, I think, the point of literature and maybe even the point of being human. . . . [Lisa Moore] gets life. . . . Exquisitely mindful . . . Luminous."--"The Globe and Mail"
"Deftly executed and moving."--"The Star" (Toronto)
"Emotional tension, coupled with an acute eye for regional setting and dialect, has long been a hallmark of Moore's work. . . . ["February"] is hauntingly beautiful . . . [and its] subtle styling, sparse dialogue and sombre tone succeed at shining a light not only upon the impact of the Ocean Ranger disaster, but also upon the lasting aftermath of death itself. . . . Moore pens another triumph."--" The Chronicle Herald "(Canada)
"Moore's ability to write originally and passionately about love and death relies on her eye for detail and her psychologica
From the publishers of Mary Lawson and Alice Munro, a moving and masterful novel by 'an astonishing writer' (Richard Ford)
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- PublisherHouse of Anansi Pr
- Publication date2013
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