Author

Publication

2000 - Viking, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,000 words, Guess

Page Count

212 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads1621218
  • LibraryThing193184

Classifications

  • DDC823/.914
  • LCCPR9619.3.G538 S66 2000

Description

"On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Tasmania, a thing more seal than human. As news of the creature spreads through the colony, incredulous doctors come to peer under Sarah's skirts. The Reverend Mr Kidney suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive Dutch sooterkin.". "The pup is a joy to its parents and a welcome companion to their nine-year-old son Ned, who discovers surprising - and profitable - talents in his whiskery sibling. But when a well-dressed stranger arrives, bearing a modest proposal for the infant's future, no one foresees the trouble that lies ahead."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Other Editions

  • The sooterkinViking2000-01-01

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