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Author: Nelson Simon
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Imprint: Chicago Review Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 15.20cm
, Length: 22.80cm
ISBN: 9781641604086
ISBN 10: 1641604085
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 26 October 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Soul of the Hurricane by Nelson Simon is a thundering memoir of extraordinary grace and character. Simon is a gifted wordsmith whose deft and concise writing style is the calm before the storm of a heart-pounding adventure that snatches the reader into a swirling rush of exhilarating emotion. This book is a well-paced masterpiece of great storytelling. Not of some heroic figure, but of someone like you or me. You are left with an awe of happenstance, and a wonder of how life unfolds as a mysterious cache of the unforeseen. --Bill Mosher, founder and producer of Visionaries on PBS In Soul of the Hurricane Nelson Simon has written an epic page turner. In turns thrilling and lyrical, Simon's book is a meditation on beauty, courage, and loss. It is a work infused with history and heart that envelops you in its many wonders. Soul of the Hurricane is a remarkable debut from a singular storyteller. --David Isay, Peabody Award-winning creator of StoryCorps Nelson Simon's memoir reminds the reader that those who go down to the sea in ships are a complex and varied lot: skillful, determined, hapless, obsessed. Men and women who are at the mercy of accident and fate as surely as they are tossed about by wind and waves. Soul of the Hurricane is the kind of character-driven, storm-battered, seafaring yarn Joseph Conrad would have loved. Or written. --Alice McDermott, author of The Ninth Hour and Charming Billy, winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction With Soul of the Hurricane, accidental sailor Nelson Simon deftly weaves a compelling story about a perfect storm of powerful forces: Hurricane Grace, famed explorer Norman Baker, and the inexorable draw of the soul toward risk and adventure. --Amy Eddings, host/producer at Ideastream Public Media Readers who love sea adventures will revel in the drama of this very personal narrative. -- Booklist
Author Information
Nelson Simon is a performer, videographer, and activist. In 1986 he helped found the Working Theater. His documentary credits include We Shall Not Be Moved: Downstate '63 about the civil rights movement in Brooklyn, and an episode for Visionaries, the award-winning PBS series. He lives in New York.
