Overview
David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creative writing workshops aboard a sailboat. But a trip to Turkey seems him dreaming bigger - and before he knows it, he is at the helm of his own ninety-foot boat, running charters along the Turkish coast. And here his troubles begin. Sinking deep into debt, and encountering everything from a lost rudder to freak storms, Vann is on the verge of losing everything - including his life. Part high-seas adventure, part journey of self-discovery, A Mile Down is a gripping and unforgettable story of struggle and redemption, by a writer at the top of his game.
Full Product Details
Author: David Vann
Publisher: Cornerstone
Imprint: Windmill Books
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.181kg
ISBN: 9780099558736
ISBN 10: 0099558734
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 11 August 2016
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
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 At once memoir, confession, travel book and thriller, David Vann's A Mile Down is so vivid and intense you will dread to see it end... The book is a testimony of passion and courage in deadly storms and scarier calms, of a man wrestling with his ghosts and gifts in the very shadow of paradise. -- Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and Brave Enemies Vann brings his undoubted storytelling skill to his own experiences...unflinching honesty...a terrific piece of writing from a brave and talented author. Big Issue An antidote to the usual run of escape-to-the-sun memoirs. Financial Times Rarely has a memoir combined such raw self-exposure with such ultimately consoling insight. New Statesman
Author Information
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.
