The Owner of the Sea: Three Inuit Stories Retold

by Richard Price

A The Scotsman Book of the Year 2021. In re-telling the Inuit stories included here, Richard Price opens out remarkable northern vistas and unfamiliar narratives, strange gods and unforgettable characters. Carol Rumens described Price as a poet who is 'brilliant quietly: inventive, sometimes dazzling, but never merely showy': precisely the talents for rendering, rather than appropriating these great story-cycles of Inuit culture. Here we learn of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 180017117X
• ISBN13: 9781800171176
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Carcanet Classics
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"