Outerbridge Reach
A Contemporary, Literary Fiction, American book. Starts so slowly and dully that I doubt it would ever be published these days without an...
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- Pages: 409 pages
- ISBN: 9780330372237 / 330372238
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Moby Dick as imagined by Joan Didion. A man determined to discovery reality and truth embarks on a solo sailing rice around the world. It's hard to describe what happens without spoilers, so I won't. Suffice it to say that some of the book is incomprehensible, some is wonderful, and some chokes on its own cleverness and irony. In his fictionalised account of the Donald Crowhurst affair (the lone yachtsman who faked his round-the-world voyage before committing suicide), Robert Stone uses some of the same characters as appeared in Dog Soldiers: the weak central character moved to a desperate course of action, his wife who is better than he is, and the cynic... Starts so slowly and dully that I doubt it would ever be published these days without an already well known author. The entire first half is background for the second half. The story of an improbable sailing trip, an improbable love affair and an improbable suicide. It is serviceably written, as far as grammar, etc., but there is no...
