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Storm Chasers: A Novel [Hardcover]

Paul Quarrington (Author)
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0312342810 978-0312342814 June 23, 2005 First Edition
Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay—visitors usually wash up there by accident. But this weekend, three people are flying to the island, not for a tan or fun in the sun, but because they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most people take great measures to avoid—a hurricane.

A lottery windfall and a few hours of selfishness have robbed Caldwell of all that was precious to him, while Beverly, haunted by tragedy and screwed by fate since birth, has given up on life. Also on the flight is Jimmy Newton, a professional storm chaser and videographer who will do anything for the perfect shot. Waiting for them at Dampier is the manager of the Water’s Edge Hotel, Maywell Hope, a descendant of the pirates who sailed the Caribbean hundreds of hears ago.

As their stories unfold, the tragic underpinnings of Beverly and Caldwell’s lives are revealed, a storyline that builds just as the hurricane looms ever-closer on the horizon. Cinematic and harrowing, Storm Chasers is a tale of love and loss—and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane.

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From The New Yorker

In this swift, tightly plotted novel, a fictional splinter of land in the Caribbean acts as a magnet for storm-obsessed weather chasers when it appears that the island will be the epicenter of a hurricane. Each arrives independently, with emotional baggage so weighty that it tips the scales toward black comedy: the father of one eviscerated her mother with a kitchen knife; the family of another was wiped out in a road accident the day he won the lottery. Quarrington is interested in how extreme emotional storms seek out congruent atmospheric disturbance, and it's a relief, in these chaotic pages, to encounter Maywell Hope, a character whose pirate ancestors discovered the island, whose reading matter consists solely of antique travelogues, and who, having left the island only twice, stays almost completely still.
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

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Praise for Storm Chasers

“I loved every page of it. It has a lovely lightness, the words and characters, and it manages always to be funny and real.”
--Roddy Doyle

“A novel of great compassion; Quarrington does a knockout job of conveying to us the importance of every human breath.”
--Quill and Quire

“I had no idea what to expect from each and every page. A charming, engrossing story.”
--Douglas Coupland

“A terrific novel, as impressive for its compassionate inquiry into the psychology of obsession as for its remarkable narrative urgency.”
--Barbara Gowdy


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition (June 23, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312342810
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312342814
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 1.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,262,051 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND named Dampier Cay. Read the first page
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pale blue church, immaculate man, beautiful black man, lottery office
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Jimmy Newton, Dampier Cay, Maywell Hope, Water's Edge, Darla Featherstone, Pirate's Lair, Lester's Hump, Merry Boys, William Dampier, Hurricane Claire, Matty Benn, Miss Polly, Don Peabody, Bob Janes, Burt Gilchrist, Corpus Sant, Hurricane Hazel, Bonefish Maywell, Dominion Tap Room, Lake Simcoe, Seth Wallaby, United States, Coronation Park, Johnny Reyes, New Zealand
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