Whalefall Hardback - 2023

Name: Whalefall: A Novel
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Author: Kraus, Daniel
ISBN: 9781665918169

by Daniel Kraus

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From the publisher

Soon to be a major motion picture from 20th Century Studios

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angel Down comes a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who's been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year.

The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out--one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

Suspenseful and cinematic, Whalefall is an "powerfully humane" (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a young man who has given up on life...only to find a reason to live in the most dangerous and unlikely of places.

Details

Title Whalefall
Author Daniel Kraus
Binding Hardback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher MTV Books
Publication date 2023-08-08
ISBN 9781665918169 / 1665918160
Weight 1.07 lbs (0.49 kg)
Dimensions 9.25 x 6.42 x 1.13 in (23.50 x 16.31 x 2.87 cm)
Category Fiction - Science Fiction
Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Fathers and sons
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2022059573
Dewey Decimal Code 813.6

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Citations

Booklist, 05/01/2023, Page 25
Library Journal, 05/01/2023, Page 75
Publishers Weekly, 06/05/2023, Page 0
School Library Journal, 03/01/2024, Page 95
Shelf Awareness, 11/28/2023, Page 0

About the author

Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling writer of novels, TV, and film. His novel Angel Down was the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, a New York Times Top 10 Book of the year, and a national bestseller. His novel Whalefall received a front-cover review in The New York Times Book Review, won the Alex Award, was an Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was named a Best Book of Year by NPR, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and more. With Guillermo del Toro, he coauthored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus coauthored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy Award-winning Netflix series. He cowrote The Living Dead and Pay the Piper with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero. Kraus's The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Books of the Year. Kraus has won the Bram Stoker Award, Scribe Award, two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler), and has appeared multiple times as Library Guild selections, and more. Kraus's work has been translated into over twenty-five languages. He lives with his partner in Chicago. Visit him at DanielKraus.com.