The Day That Lightning Chased the Housewife: And Other Mysteries of Science

Essays consider questions that still elude modern science concerning the mind, biology, health, plants and animals, the Earth, physics, and natural phenomena

Savold, David

Leigh, Julia

Science & Math

Harpercollins

Now a major motion picture starring William Dafoe A man identified only as “M” is hired by a multinational biotech company to locate and hunt down the last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. Beginning at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness, M embarks on a fateful course deep into the forest and an ancient world of silence and stillness. The Hunter is a haunting adventure tale of obsession and redemption, worthy of Conrad or Melville, where a business proposition takes on mythic aspects, as the quest for an extinct animal becomes a search not for ultimate profit but for the essence of life that technology has all but crushed. “Impressive.”—The New York Times Book Review "Strong and Hypnotic."— Don DeLillo “[Leigh’s] narration is as clear-eyed and cold-blooded as her hero.”—The New Yorker “A memorable debut, one full of many rewards and a subtle, precise beauty.”—San Francisco Chronicle

The Hunter

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Penguin??Books

Olivia arrives at her mother?s chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia?s brother Marcus and his wife Sophie?but this reunion is far from joyful. After years of desperately wanting a baby, Sophie has just given birth to a stillborn child, and she is struggling to overcome her devastation. Meanwhile, Olivia wrestles with her own secrets about the cruel and violent man she married many years before. Exquisitely written and reminiscent of Ian McEwan and J. M. Coetzee, Disquiet is a darkly beautiful and atmospheric story that will linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.

Disquiet

Literary

An intensely personal narrative of loss, hope, and longing for a child. In this brave and lucid account, Julia Leigh broaches a challenging life event often left undiscussed: how the struggle to have a child can take an agonizing toll. Leigh’s experience at the vanguard of medical science is acutely rendered, physically and emotionally, transmitting what it feels like to so desperately wish for a child while knowing that the odds are stacked against you. From the daily shots she puts herself through at home, to hopes raised and dashed, and finally to the decision to stop treatment, Avalanche bears witness to Leigh’s raw desire, suffering, strength, and, in the end, transformation―a shift to a different kind of love. The reader looks behind the scenes of a clinic and discovers how things really work: reality is a far cry from the slick marketing of the billion-dollar infertility industry. As for so many women, Leigh’s treatment failed, but her ghost child lingers in memory.

Avalanche: A Love Story

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

W.W.Norton&Company

Now a major motion picture starring William Dafoe   A man identified only as “M” is hired by a multinational biotech company to locate and hunt down the last known Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine. Beginning at a remote house on the fringe of a vast wilderness, M embarks on a fateful course deep into the forest and an ancient world of silence and stillness. The Hunter is a haunting adventure tale of obsession and redemption, worthy of Conrad or Melville, where a business proposition takes on mythic aspects, as the quest for an extinct animal becomes a search not for ultimate profit but for the essence of life that technology has all but crushed. “Impressive.”—The New York Times Book Review   "Strong and Hypnotic."— Don DeLillo “[Leigh’s] narration is as clear-eyed and cold-blooded as her hero.”—The New Yorker “A memorable debut, one full of many rewards and a subtle, precise beauty.”—San Francisco Chronicle

Hunter

Action & Adventure

Four Walls, Eight Windows

The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind: to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. The man is in the employ of the mysterious 'Company', but his sinister purpose is never revealed and as his relationship with a grieving mother and her two children becomes more ambiguous, the hunt becomes his own. Leigh's Tasmania is a place where the wilderness can still claim lives; where the connection between people and the land is at best uneasy and cannot be trusted. In prose of exceptional clarity and elegance, Julia Leigh creates an unforgettable picture of a man obsessed by an almost mythical animal in a damp dangerous landscape. The Hunter is the work of a compelling storyteller and a truly remarkable literary stylist.

Contemporary

Faber and Faber

Faber&Faber

Essays consider the leading scientific theories on questions that continue to elude modern science, such as the mind, biology, health, plants and animals, the Earth, the universe, physics, and natural phenomena

Madison Books

In the vast wilderness of Tasmania's plateau, the Tasmanian tiger - the thylacine - long thought extinct, has been spotted, sparking the imagination of the locals and drawing the dubious interests of outsiders. One of the latter is M, whose objective is to find the creature for a multinational biotech company. In The Hunter, author Julia Leigh tracks M's fateful course, from his base camp with a young family whose ranks were decimated by the wilderness, to the forests where M immerses himself in the tiger's world - reading footprints in the mud, covering his scent with animal dung. What begins as a business proposition takes on mythic aspects as M's quest becomes ever more obsessive, a search not for ultimate profit but for the essence of life that technology has all but crushed.

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The Day That Lightning Chased the Housewife: And Other Mysteries of Science

The Hunter

Disquiet

Avalanche: A Love Story

Hunter

The Hunter

Disquiet

Disquiet

The Day That Lightning Chased the Housewife: And Other Mysteries of Science

The Hunter