The Raven – Buch gebraucht kaufen

0006550487

(ISBN-13: 9780006550488)

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350 g

Hardcover/gebunden

Englisch

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Sehr spannend geschrieben, ein Buch über das Leben mit dem Meer, über Fischer und ein kleiner Ort.
Winner of prize, best first fiction.

On 29th June 1941, thirty-six members of a small community near Boston go out on a picnic off Bailey Island on the pleasure craft The Raven. Mysteriously, only the women and one man, naked and tied to a keg, come back, all dead, found by a lobsterman and his young son. Conflicting details about the incident abound but what really happened?.

Presse
'Ever since Melville's assault on the great white whale (and with it the Great American novel) the sea off the New England Coast has proved as fruitful to writers as to fishermen. The latest to launch into it is Peter Landesman, whose immensely accomplished first novel offers a fictional account of a real life disaster, the sinking of the pleasure boat, the Raven, in 1941. Out of the bare bones of this story, Landesman has fashioned a fascinating fiction. Narrative is skilfully handled across four decades as the tragedy take its long-term toll and the sea gradually reveals its secrets. This is a magnificent debut. Landesman is the equal of E. Annie Proulx in his handling of the fishermen's hard lives and tangy dialogue. The Raven displays the allegorical power of the best sea stories wedded to the thematic richness and psycholgical depth of the finest fiction.' Michael Arditti, The Times

fishermen, ship, Boston, Bailey Island, sink, Mysterious, tragedy, sea

1997

13.04.2023

BN0295