''The Great Offshore Grounds'' is an
American novel
American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...
, by
Vanessa Veselka
Vanessa Veselka (born March 14, 1969) is an American writer best known for her 2020 novel '' The Great Offshore Grounds'', which won the Oregon Book Award and was longlisted for the U.S. National Book Award. She is also known for her first nove ...
. It won the
Oregon Book Award
The Oregon Book Awards are presented annually by Literary Arts to honor the "state’s finest accomplishments by Oregon writers who work in genres of poetry, fiction, graphic literature, drama, literary nonfiction, and literature for young readers. ...
and was longlisted for the U.S.
National Book Award.
On the novel
The novel is
post-capitalist
Post-capitalism is a state in which the economic systems of the world can no longer be described as forms of capitalism. Various individuals and political ideologies have speculated on what would define such a world. According to classical Marx ...
fiction.
References
External links
Vanessa Veselka's writing pageThe ''Boston Globe'' on ''The Great Offshore Grounds''Goodreads on ''The Great Offshore Grounds''Mybookcart, comments on post-capitalismNationalbook.org of ''The Great Offshore Grounds''
21st-century American novels
Year of work missing
Alfred A. Knopf books
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