Samantha Harvey
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BOOK REVIEW | Samantha Harvey’s Orbital’s Pertinent Political Point is Held Back by a Weak Narrative
2 months ago |
frontline.thehindu.com | Samantha Harvey |Bhavya Dore |Jayant Prasad |Vaishna Roy
Six astronauts circle the earth aboard the International Space Station. How do they feel and what do they see in the course of one earth day? This is the premise of Samantha Harvey’s Orbital, which won the 2024 Booker Prize. A slim 136-page affair set in space, it is neither science fiction nor speculative fiction. It operates in the straightforward register of realism.
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Dec 20, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Samantha Harvey
My earliest reading memoryGoodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. This book will always stay with me; it was perhaps the first one I read on my own that disturbed me, and presented me with a world in which there was pain, neglect and suffering, and also towering kindness. The older I get the more grateful I am to my parents for filling my early life with books – for the joy of them, and also an understanding that life is out there.
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Dec 10, 2024 |
milfordfreepress.com | Samantha Harvey
Adult ProgramsDECEMBER 2024Please Note: The Taft Public Library will be closed on Tuesday, Dec. 24 and Wednesday, Dec. 25. It will be open from 10 a.m - 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 31 and closed on Wednesday, Jan. 1. Enjoy the holidays!Upcoming Events:To register for an event, click on the Library Event Calendar & Registration link at the top of the library’s homepage www.taftpubliclibrary.org .
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Dec 7, 2024 |
captimes.com | Samantha Harvey
In my parents’ town of Port Washington, you can watch Lake Michigan for hours. It’s hard not to wonder about all the people throughout time who have gathered on the shore of this lake so big you can’t see the other side, this lake that laps up on state park beaches and urban walkways, this lake that cradles rugged dunes. Throughout my childhood in southeastern Wisconsin, Lake Michigan was a humbling presence, a reminder of the wild that connects and supports us all.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
penguinrandomhouse.co.za | Samantha Harvey
In November 2024, Samantha Harvey won the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital. This is the second time that Harvey has been recognised for her work – in 2009, she was longlisted for her novel,The Wilderness. Harvey is also the author of the novels All is Song, Dear Thief and The Western Wind, and a work of non-fiction, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping.
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