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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Wheeler Pub Inc
Publication date October 8, 2014
Pages 553
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781410472601
ISBN-10 1410472604
Dimensions 1.25 by 5.50 by 9 in.
Weight 1.40 lbs.
Original list price $30.99
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Summaries and Reviews
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"Confirms what Touch already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today."―Téa Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife

From the internationally acclaimed author of Touch, praised as "breathtaking" (People) and "lovely…at once dreamy and riveting" (Washington Post), comes a powerful family saga steeped in the legends of the sea. Set in a lobster fishing village, The Lobster Kings introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, Cordelia Kings.

The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kings, this blessing comes with a curse: the loss of every firstborn son. 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.

Inspired by King Lear, The Lobster Kings is the story of Cordelia’s struggle to maintain her island’s way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythical legacy of her family’s namesake.



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Hardcover
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Large print edition from Wheeler Pub Inc (October 8, 2014)
9781410472601 | details & prices | 553 pages | 5.50 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $30.99
About: "Confirms what Touch already prophesied: Alexi Zentner is one of the greatest literary architects and mythmakers working today.
from W W Norton & Co Inc (May 27, 2014)
9780393089578 | details & prices | 348 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $26.95
Paperback
Book cover for 9780393351071
 
Reprint edition from W W Norton & Co Inc (May 18, 2015)
9780393351071 | details & prices | 348 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $16.95
About: A mythical family saga steeped in the legends of the sea, The Lobster Kings is a "powerhouse of a novel" (Ben Fountain).
CD/Spoken Word
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Mp3 una edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 27, 2014)
9781482990959 | details & prices | 5.75 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.20 lbs | List price $29.95
About: [Read by Cassandra Campbell]A love story and a modern epic in the grand Shakespearean vein that introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, ''The Lobster Kings'' is the story of Cordelia's struggle to maintain her island's way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythic legacy of her family's namesake.
With Cassandra Campbell (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (May 27, 2014)
9781482990966 | details & prices | 6.50 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $34.95
About: [Read by Cassandra Campbell]A love story and a modern epic in the grand Shakespearean vein that introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, ''The Lobster Kings'' is the story of Cordelia's struggle to maintain her island's way of life in the face of danger from offshore and the rich, looming, mythic legacy of her family's namesake.

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