A Mile Down : The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea

ISBN-13: 9780099558736 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str.

David Vann

Opis

Tells the story of building author's own sailing ship and of the disastrous voyage that ensues. With an adventure on the open ocean and a tale of one man's attempt to overcome fate and realise his dream, this is a unforgettable story of struggle and redemption by a writer of rare power.

Recenzje

You gaze entranced as his destiny unfolds...Vann pulls off the most gripping passage of sea-catastrophe writing I have read outside Conrad, a chest-tightening, concretely detailed, cold, sickening and cumulatively desperate depiction of life turning murderous. Spectator

O autorze

David Vann was born in the Aleutian Islands and spent his childhood in Ketchikan, Alaska. He is the author of the international bestseller Legend of a Suicide - which has been translated into eighteen languages and won several prizes including the Prix Medicis Etranger - Caribou Island, Dirt, Goat Mountain and Aquarium. He is also the author of two bestselling non-fiction books, and has written for Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, the Sunday Times, Guardian, Sunday Telegraph, Financial Times and other magazines and newspapers.