
The Lobster Kings
A Novel
Paperback
Other Editions of This Title:
Digital Audiobook (5/26/2014)
Hardcover (5/27/2014)
Hardcover, Large Print (10/1/2014)
Compact Disc (5/27/2014)
Compact Disc (5/27/2014)
MP3 CD (5/27/2014)
Description
A mythical family saga steeped in the legends of the sea, The Lobster Kings is a "powerhouse of a novel" (Ben Fountain).
The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years. Now, Woody Kings, the leader of the island's lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne, and Cordelia, the oldest of Woody's three daughters, stands to inherit the crown. To do so, however, she must defend her island from meth dealers from the mainland, while navigating sibling rivalry and the vulnerable nature of her own heart when she falls in love with her sternman.
Praise For The Lobster Kings: A Novel…
A powerhouse of a novel. Alexi Zentner proves himself
to be a writer of the first rank.
— Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today.
— Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife
The Lobster Kings is well worth a summer read; in fact, it's likely the reader will want to devour it again and again.
— Autumn Markus
Award-winning Zentner's literary tour de force takes hold of the reader's imagination and doesn't let go. Extraordinary storytelling not to be missed.
Brutal and beautiful.
W. W. Norton & Company, 9780393351071, 352pp.
Publication Date: May 18, 2015