Life will not be puzzled out, or blathered into submission it must be lived through, survived, in whatever fashion a man can manage. It is a grave mistake to think too much, he reminds himself, a grave mistake. Only actions count, he thinks for the ten-thousandth time, only events. If you like thrillers, mysteries, or a well-written book, then this is a must-read.Ī few quotes from the book that I liked starting with my favourite. Both have one thing in common: they are survivors. Patrick Sumner is a surgeon trying to save lives, can’t help being a thinker, is trying to escape his guilt-ridden past. Henry Drax is an evil harpooner, a killer by profession, and who is “.
Though there’s quite a bit of violence against humans and animals, the visceral details together with the language lends authenticity to the tale.Īfter character building in the first few chapters, the narrative gathers pace, and the point of view oscillates between two principal characters. The North Water is a well-paced dark whaling thriller set in the 1850s about evil, mystery, and humans battling the severe conditions of the Arctic. Ian McGuire’s second novel is an unflinching look at what men do, in extreme circumstances, for money, to survive, or for no reason at all. There are echoes here of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness: if horror lies at the core of existence, what response is possible? The North Water by Ian McGuire review – a voyage into the heart of darknesss The ship becomes a morally null universe, isolated on the north water. One could think of it as a combination of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The North Water by Ian McGuire is a dark whaling yarn with the about humanity under the most extreme conditions of the Arctic.
The book was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2016 and was in the New York Times list of 10 Best Books of 2016. The North Water is a 2016 novel by English author and academic Ian McGuire.
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