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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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