The Underwater Welder

The Underwater Welder

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The Underwater Welder

Softcover 224 pp

4.64.612 reviews

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English (United States) · 

Plot

Pressure. As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. But then, something happens deep on the ocean floor. Jack has a strange and mind-bending encounter that will change the course of his life forever! Equal parts blue-collar character study and mind-bending science fiction epic, The Underwater Welder explores fathers and sons, birth and death, memory and truth, and the treasures we all bury deep down inside.

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  • 978-1-603-09074-2
  • 9781603090742-51995

What readers say

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has rated41/27/2023

This was a Solid Jeff Lemire story and a VERY quick read. I was really rooting for the main character, Jack, as he grappled with his past relationship was his dead father and struggling with becoming a father of his own. I thought that the story was at it's strongest in the third chapter as he's forced to work out his mental conflict and face the truth of his feelings. Overall, a very solid story with a very likable and empathetic character.

has rated58/29/2020

Todavía no he encontrado de Lemire como autor completo que no me haya parecido una maravilla. Aquí vuelve a sus temas comunes: la relación padre e hijo, los traumitas familiares, las espirales y los paralelismos vitales o la soledad, siempre desde un tono melancólico. La edición de Top Shelf está a la altura: barata, manejable, poco peso, papel poroso, con solapas y resistente.

has rated411/8/2018

Pese a lo grandilocuente de la premisa, sobre todo por su extensión, esta obra no pierde la esencia intimista y casi rural de la primera gran obra independiente de Lemire, Essex County. Sin embargo, en este caso deslocaliza más su relato, dejando que esa costa de Nueva Escocia sea en realidad un paisaje gris en el que el mar es un recordatorio monstruoso de un trauma y no un lugar en sí mismo, un titán oscuro al que es necesario atravesar y sobrevivir para salir a flote en la familiar tierra firme. [Reseña completa en Globos de Pensamiento: https://globosdepensamiento.com/2018/11/07/the-underwater-welder-entre-dos-aguas-resenoviembre-dia-5/]

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