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Dogfish Memory combines memoir, elegy, quest narrative, sailing chronicle, and love story, and is held together by a remarkable voice taut, frequently sardonic, precise, and utterly merciless towards all pretensions, all comforting illusions. It is a beautiful and moving book, propelled and obstructed by its emotional intensity, on the one hand, and its unrelenting, self-deflating intelligence on the other. I found myself thinking of W.G. Sebald s The Rings of Saturn not in its subject matter, but in its compelling inconsolability. But real books by real writers are sui generis, and this is a real book by a real writer. --Franklin Burroughs, author of Billy Watson s Croker Sack

Dane's memoir is ultimately an elegy to lost youth: If you stick with it, you'll be amply rewarded with glimpses into the musings of a capacious mind. --Kathryn Lang (06/20/2011)

An exquisite memoir about lost love and the sustaining grace of the sea. --T.C. Boyle, author of When the Killing 's Done and many other novels

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Joseph A. Dane is a native of Maine who, despite being a professor of English at the University of Southern California, returns to his family property in Maine to spend summers sailing the coastline. He divides his time between Los Angeles, CA, and Harpswell, ME.

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