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Author: Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking and other bestselling novels
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.10cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.313kg
ISBN: 9781493073924
ISBN 10: 1493073923
Pages: 242
Publication Date: 01 May 2023
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""An impressive addition to the contemporary literature of sea travel. It belongs, properly, on the same shelf as Malcolm Lawry's Ultramarine, James Hanley's Boy, and certainly Traven...Often extremely funny."" -- ""Times Literary Supplement"" ""Funny, high-spirited, immensely enjoyable."" -- ""The Washington Post"" ""Rich in details, reflected in vivid prose... A fascinating story."" -- ""Monitor"" ""This book is really great. It makes you feel a world and care about it intensely when you thought that world had passed into cliche."" -- ""American Spectator"""
"""An impressive addition to the contemporary literature of sea travel. It belongs, properly, on the same shelf as Malcolm Lawry's Ultramarine, James Hanley's Boy, and certainly Traven...Often extremely funny.""-- ""Times Literary Supplement"" ""Funny, high-spirited, immensely enjoyable.""-- ""Washington Post"" ""Rich in details, reflected in vivid prose... A fascinating story.""-- ""Monitor"" ""This book is really great. It makes you feel a world and care about it intensely when you thought that world had passed into cliche.""-- ""American Spectator"" ""An impressive addition to the contemporary literature of sea travel. It belongs, properly, on the same shelf as Malcolm Lawry's Ultramarine, James Hanley's Boy, and certainly Traven...Often extremely funny."" ""Funny, high-spirited, immensely enjoyable."" ""Rich in details, reflected in vivid prose... A fascinating story."" ""This book is really great. It makes you feel a world and care about it intensely when you thought that world had passed into cliche."""
Funny, high-spirited, immensely enjoyable. -- Washington Post An impressive addition to the contemporary literature of sea travel. It belongs, properly, on the same shelf as Malcolm Lawry's Ultramarine, James Hanley's Boy, and certainly Traven...Often extremely funny.-- Times Literary Supplement Rich in details, reflected in vivid prose... A fascinating story.-- Monitor This book is really great. It makes you feel a world and care about it intensely when you thought that world had passed into cliche.-- American Spectator
"""An impressive addition to the contemporary literature of sea travel. It belongs, properly, on the same shelf as Malcolm Lawry's Ultramarine, James Hanley's Boy, and certainly Traven...Often extremely funny."" ""Funny, high-spirited, immensely enjoyable."" ""Rich in details, reflected in vivid prose... A fascinating story."" ""This book is really great. It makes you feel a world and care about it intensely when you thought that world had passed into cliche."""
Author Information
Christopher Taylor Buckley is an American author and political satirist. He also served as chief speechwriter to Vice President George H.W. Bush. He is known for writing God is My Broker, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, The White House Mess, No Way to Treat a First Lady,Wet Work, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, and The Judge Hunter. He lives in Stamford, CT.
