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The Voyage
by Caputo, Philip [Jim Harrison]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0679450394
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450399
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 1999. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Association copy, inscribed to novelist Jim Harrison, author of *Legends of the Fall*, and his wife on the half-title page: "For Jim & Linda, con un grande abrazo [with a big embrace], Phil." Caputo won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting and is best known for his nonfiction book *A Rumor of War* about Vietnam. This novel is about a sailing adventure from Maine to the Florida Keys that goes wrong and swirling family questions. A fine book in a very good plus jacket with an inconspicuous coffee stain on the front panel (part of a ring), a touch of fading to the spine, and light edgewear and rubbing. From the library of Jim Harrison in Livingston, Montana. // Wood (+) River (=) Books specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
Synopsis
On a June morning in the century's infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite -- without explanation -- orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites' forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast, bound for the Florida Keys. A storm abruptly ends their passage, leaving them stranded in Cuba, but when they telegraph their father for help, he does not respond. After their ordeal is over, no one in the family ever again mentions the voyage.Now, almost a century later, Cyrus's great-granddaughter Sybil is determined to know the hidden heart of the story: Why did Cyrus send his sons to sea? Why was their mother in a Boston hospital? What role was played in the drama by Lockwood Braithwaite, the enigmatic child of Cyrus's first marriage? Sybil's discoveries will change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and the America whose ideals the Braithwaites once embodied.The author of A Rumor of War -- acclaimed as one of the great books about Vietnam -- here gives us a rich and gripping tale of adventure, courage, and the persisting effects of long-held secrets. The Voyage is a powerful novel about a family whose ways and deeds were once a template for the nation.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1681892946053
- Title
- The Voyage
- Author
- Caputo, Philip [Jim Harrison]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0679450394
- ISBN 13
- 9780679450399
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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