The Great Offshore Grounds - 'It blew me away' Emma Donoghue

A cross-country novel of sisterhood - like a feminist version of the Odyssey or a wild retelling of Thelma & Louise set across post-capitalist America.

About the author

VANESSA VESELKA is the author of the novel, ZAZEN, which won the PEN/Robert Bingham prize for fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and her nonfiction in GQ, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, the Atavist and was included in Best American Essays and the anthology Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism.
She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex-worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train-hopper, a waitress, and a mother.

Summary

A cross-country novel of sisterhood - like a feminist version of the Odyssey or a wild retelling of Thelma & Louise set across post-capitalist America.

Product details

• Authors: Vanessa Veselka, Veselka Vanessa
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.01.2022
• EAN: 9781474614283
• ISBN: 978-1-4746-1428-3
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Political, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Alternative Family, FICTION / Sea Stories, FICTION / Family Life / Siblings, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Oceans & Seas, TRAVEL / United States / West / Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA), FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, TRAVEL / United States / South / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Fossil Fuels, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Marine & Naval, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Lakes, Ponds & Swamps, Family life fiction, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Extended Family, United States of America, USA, Modern and contemporary fiction, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Free Enterprise & Capitalism, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary