by Mark Haddon

By all accounts a most ambitious novel, The Porpoise starts with the ancient legend of Antiochus, includes Shakespeare’s version of a similar theme in Pericles, and forays into further adventures as we voyage through a mythic world of author Mark Haddon’s imagining.   

According to Amazon, “the language is rich and gorgeous; the conjured world are perfectly imagined; the plot moves forward at a ferocious pace…..As profound as it is entertaining, The Porpoise is a major literary achievement by an author whose myriad talents are on full, vivid display.”