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Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love.

A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral.

Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena's fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test, and ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy.

As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial. In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel that extolls the virtues of living by the laws of conscience, decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short of a masterpiece.

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  • Title The Oceans and the Stars: A Sea Story, a War Story, a Love Story (a Novel)
  • Author Mark Helprin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harry N. Abrams
  • Publication date 2023-10-03
  • Features Dust Cover
  • ISBN 9781419769085 / 1419769081
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.4 x 1.7 in (23.11 x 16.26 x 4.32 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects United States, Ship captains
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023111680
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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  • Booklist, 09/15/2023, Page 16
  • Kirkus Reviews, 08/01/2023, Page 0

About the author

Mark Helprin is the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of Paris in the Present Tense, Winter's Tale, In Sunlight and in Shadow, A Soldier of the Great War, Freddy and Fredericka, The Pacific, Swan Lake, Ellis Island, Memoir from Antproof Case, and numerous other works.

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