Submergence
J. M. Ledgard
Coffee House Press
"Every once in a while, a critic will be mesmerized by a book that stands out from -- even wipes the floor with -- all other books that have come his way of late. . . . Prose merges with poetry; shocks detonate like depth charges, and characters&#8217; fates actually matter in <I>Submergence</I>, an astonishing novel that utterly immerses the reader."--<B>Malcolm Forbes, <I>Minneapolis Star Tribune </I></B><BR><BR>"An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism. . . . [A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror."--<B>Alan Cheuse, <I>NPR's "All Things Considered"</B></I><BR><BR>"Ledgard has given, in <I>Submergence</I>, glimpses of very strange life indeed: the spy in a place so lawless that chaos is the only norm, the scientist in our planet&#8217;s least knowable region, lovers expert at self-containment. Out of this, acute understandings emerge."&#151;<I><B>New York Times Book Review </I> </B><BR><BR>In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa,...</BR></BR></BR></BR></BR></BR>