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November 1836. A fierce gale beaches an American steamer off the Englishcoast injuring an African slave below decks and eventually disgorging 300 headof cattle and an innful of rowdy American sailors into a hardscrabble fishingvillage. The same storm drives into port a ship from London bearing one AymerSmith the foolish wellintentioned prig who will deprive the town of itslivelihood free the American slave and set into motion a whole series ofunforeseeable tragicomic events. Chosen by Publishers Weekly as one of thebest books of 1995 Signals of Distress Jim Craces fourth novel once againdisplays the authors gift for inventing richly strange and believable worldsthat uncannily foretell our own. «
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