We are all food for monsters, and most of us dont even know it. Mario Lucado seeks out a life of terror and menace. No one believes his wife was murdered by a vampire twenty-five years ago. The old mans lost his marbles, they say. What a shame. But when people start finding bodies in the woods
The Yellow Sailor
✍ Scribed by Steve Weiner
- Publisher
- The Overlook Press
- Year
- 2012;2001
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 94 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1468307673
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✦ Synopsis
Elegantly grotesque and baroquely compelling, The Yellow Sailor is a chiaroscuroed search for love, dimly and briefly lit by flashes of hope, until gorgeous hallucinations beckoning with a seductive nothingness overwhelm the bleak and tentative future.This extraordinary novel, moodily operatic in tone and by turns hallucinatory and brilliantly detailed, follows the trajectories of four sailors and the owner of a German merchant ship, Yellow Sailor, which sets sail from Bremen in 1914. After the ship wrecks in shallow water, the men drift their separate ways, with each man's journey across a desolate wartime European landscape becoming an exploration of the failure of love, sex, religion, and friendship. Julius Bernai, owner of the ship and frankly homosexual, checks into an institute for nervous disorders and falls in love with the doctor's fiancee. Nicholas Bremml drifts: from the beds of numerous prostitutes to an oil tanker called Erwartung--...
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