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Dangers of the deep

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March 2006, no. 279

The God of Spring by Arabella Edge

Picador, $32.95 pb, 344 pp, 0330422065

Dangers of the deep

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March 2006, no. 279

Disaster has always shadowed the traveller. Today’s adventurers differ from their forebears only in the kinds of calamity they have cause to fear. Arabella Edge’s second novel – like her first, the award-winning The Company (2000) – will have readers thanking their lucky stars that shipwreck, at least, has gone the way of history. As its cover suggests, The God of Spring centres on Théodore Géricault’s masterpiece, The Raft of the Medusa (1819) – its painting, its painter and the real event it depicts.

The God of Spring

The God of Spring

by Arabella Edge

Picador, $32.95 pb, 344 pp, 0330422065

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