In the Sky: A Fantasia About Rowing - Couverture souple

Slocum, Rob

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1419662651 ISBN 13 : 9781419662652

Editeur : Booksurge Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Imagine Dead Poets' Society, but with an eight-man crew instead of an English class, and a coach instead of a teacher. In place of Whitman, the coach draws on Plato's Allegory of the Cave. As Topher Bordeau wrote in Rowing News, IN THE SKY is "...reminiscent of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance-an intermittent discourse on religion and spirituality wrapped around a journey. Through the perspective of walk-on Bozzy, Slocum weaves ideas-both fundamental and tangential to rowing-through a promising crew's pursuit of excellence." IN THE SKY is meant for a general audience. It is about rowing in the sense that MOBY DICK is about whaling. The short, smoothly written story is nearly a poem itself. The characterizations are concise yet vivid, with primary billing going to the narrator, the coach, and the crew's female coxswain. Its themes of human striving, and what it is to be a warrior, are treated in an entirely upbeat and occasionally very funny way.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Booksurge Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1419662651
• ISBN 13: 9781419662652
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible