To the White Sea - Couverture souple

Dickey, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0671852221 ISBN 13 : 9780671852221

Editeur : Pocket Books, 1996

Synopsis

Two days before the fire bombing raid on Tokyo in World War II, an American airforce rear gunner is shot down, and parachutes into a city being firebombed by his own side. On the ground, his journey becomes more than an escape - escalating into a violent odyssey of self-discovery.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

John Updike described legendary Southern poet and novelist James Dickey as 'the high-flyer of American poets'. This was literally true: he flew over 100 missions in WWII, developing his reputation as a tough-guy, and his dark TO THE WHITE SEA is the truest to his experience.
An American airforce gunner is blasted from the sky over Tokyo in the 1945 firestorms which seem to end civilization. And he is glad of it. Left with only his army survival kit, his own knife and his upbringing as a hunter in the lower Arctic, the airman makes his way through the burning city under cover of chaos, and across the alien country to the northern snows, where he can live alone, on his instincts.
This is a haunting and starkly beautiful book of fire and ice, blood and snow, stripping back layers of humanity to reveal man as both hunter and hunted, an unequivocal part of nature.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Award-winning and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes  from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic,  ruined city, he instinctively travels north toward a frozen, desolate sanctuary he is certain will assure this survival--and freedom. Making his way through enemy terrain, on the lookout for both danger and  opportunity, Muldrow's journey becomes the flight of a pure predator. Moving through the darkness,  bombarded by haunting visions that consume his  imagination, every step in his violent odyssey brings  him closer to a harrowing climax that is pure  James Dickey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pocket Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0671852221
• ISBN 13: 9780671852221
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible