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The yellow sailor / Steve Weiner.
Van Pelt Library PS3573.E3946 Y45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weiner, Steve, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Shipowners.
- Survival--Fiction.
- Survival.
- Shipwreck survival--Fiction.
- Shipwreck survival.
- Survival at sea--Fiction.
- Survival at sea.
- Airplane crash survival--Fiction.
- Airplane crash survival.
- Shipowners--Fiction.
- Sailors--Fiction.
- Sailors.
- Europe--Fiction.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- This extraordinary novel, moodily operatic intone and by turns hallucinatory and brilliantly detailed, follows thetrajectories of four sailors and the owner of a German merchant ship, YellowSailor, which sets sail from Bremen in 1914. After the ship wrecks in shallowwater, the men drift their separate ways, with each man's journey across adesolate wartime European landscape becoming an exploration of the failure oflove, sex, religion, and friendship. Julius Bernai, owner of the ship andfrankly homosexual, checks into an institute for nervous disorders and falls inlove with the doctor's fianc#65533;e. Nicholas Bremml drifts: from the beds ofnumerous prostitutes to an oil tanker called Erwartung-- Expectation--to Prague'sJewish market, where he sells magic spells. Brothers Karl and Alois are equallyrudderless, and Jacek, the electrician, goes to work in the mines, where hislove advice to a fourteen-year-old Polish boy precipitates a macabre murder.
- ISBN:
- 158567169X
- OCLC:
- 47054736
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