We Are All Crew
β Scribed by Bill Landauer
- Publisher
- Akashic;Kalie Jones Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 283 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"A Huck Finn for our environmentally damaged age, lost on a river, and moving downstream with humane monsters and monstrous humans." βMarlon James, Man Booker Prizeβwinning author
Two fourteen-year-old runaways hell-bent on reaching California end up aboard the Tamzene, a mysterious riverboat that runs on alternative fuel. Piloted by the enigmatic Dr. Seabrook, the Tamzene travels the waterways of a bizarre, fun-house image of the US. This is a satire that questions the sanity of our basic principles, as Gulliver's Travels did for eighteenth-century England.
"This eye-popping page turner hits on all levels and will keep you up way past your bedtime . . . A coming of age thriller with imagination, guts, and soul." βEcoLit Books
"Two fourteen-year-old boys embark on a cross-country boat trip that becomes a romp through social anthropology in this hilarious, picaresque novel . . . We...
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