Servants of the Map

Ranging across two centuries, and from the western Himalaya to an Adirondack village, these wonderfully imagined stories and novellas travel the territories of yearning and awakening, of loss and unexpected discovery. A mapper of the highest mountain peaks realizes his true obsession. A young woman afire with scientific curiosity must come to terms with a romantic fantasy. Brothers and sisters, torn apart at an early age, are beset by dreams of reunion. Throughout, Barrett's most characteristic theme the happenings in that borderland between science and desire unfolds in the diverse lives of unforgettable human beings. Although each richly layered tale stands independently, readers of Ship Fever (National Book Award winner) and Barrett's extraordinary novel The Voyage of the Narwhal, will discover subtle links both among these new stories and to characters in the earlier works.

Author: Andrea Barrett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 02/17/2003
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780393323573

Review Citation(s):
Booksense '76 Mar/Apr 2003 03/01/2003 pg. 1
Entertainment Weekly 03/07/2003 pg. 75

About the Author
Barrett, Andrea: - Andrea Barrett is the author of the National Book Award-winning Ship Fever, Voyage of the Narwhal, Servants of the Map, Natural History, and other works of fiction. She has received a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, an NEA Fellowship, and the Rea Award for the Short Story, and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She lives in the Adirondacks.