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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mark Helprin , Traber BurnsPublisher: Blackstone Publishing Imprint: Blackstone Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.60cm , Length: 14.20cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9798212562676Publication Date: 03 October 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Audio Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""Helprin masterfully blends adrenaline and heart while the plot pieces fall into place like tumblers in a lock. Military aficionados will appreciate detailed descriptions of weaponry and tactics, while lovers of exquisite prose will be captivated by Rensselaer's profundity."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Helprin's brilliant, swiftly paced epic--a sea, war, and love story--is a moral statement for our time, taking its place in literary history alongside James Jones' From Here to Eternity and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead."" -- ""Quarterdeck magazine"" ""War, love, and the sea intermix in this novel of bravery and conscience...The action is terrific, and...the writing is as good as anything else in the genre....Fans of war stories and nautical tales will enjoy this one."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews""" """War, love, and the sea intermix in this novel of bravery and conscience.... The action is terrific...Fans of war stories and nautical tales will enjoy this one."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews""" """A grand epic...Every situation is thoroughly set up, providing technical how and emotional why, intellectual why, political why. No blind corners here, no unreliable narrators...Inspirational."" -- ""New York Journal of Books"" ""Helprin masterfully blends adrenaline and heart while the plot pieces fall into place like tumblers in a lock. Military aficionados will appreciate detailed descriptions of weaponry and tactics, while lovers of exquisite prose will be captivated by Rensselaer's profundity."" -- ""Booklist (starred review)"" ""Helprin's brilliant, swiftly paced epic--a sea, war, and love story--is a moral statement for our time, taking its place in literary history alongside James Jones' From Here to Eternity and Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead."" -- ""Quarterdeck magazine"" ""War, love, and the sea intermix in this novel of bravery and conscience...The action is terrific, and...the writing is as good as anything else in the genre....Fans of war stories and nautical tales will enjoy this one."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews""" Author InformationMark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of Paris in the Present Tense, Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, In Sunlight and in Shadow, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Swan Lake, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works. Traber Burns worked for thirty-five years in regional theater, including the New York, Oregon, and Alabama Shakespeare festivals. He also spent five years in Los Angeles appearing in many television productions and commercials, including Lost, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Gilmore Girls, and others. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |