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Haven : a novel / Emma Donoghue.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 257 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780316413930
  • 0316413933
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Monastery -- River -- To sea -- Becalmed -- Landfall -- The cross -- Seedtime -- To work -- Hatching season -- Harvest -- The last fire -- Overwintering.
Summary: In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?
Holdings
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Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Fiction DONOGHUE EMMA Available 33111011002249
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction DONOGHUE EMMA Available 33111010883029
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library Fiction DONOGHUE EMMA Available 33111009446630
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In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room , three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?

Monastery -- River -- To sea -- Becalmed -- Landfall -- The cross -- Seedtime -- To work -- Hatching season -- Harvest -- The last fire -- Overwintering.

In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival mean?

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