· James Dickey: To the White Sea - The Mookse and the Gripes. Perhaps James Dickey was best known for the novel Deliverance, which was adapted into a far more famous film version by John Boorman in What is less well known is that Dickey died a wretched alcoholic four years after the publication of To The White Sea (), in which US Air Force gunner Sergeant Muldrow records Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins. To the White Sea is compact and efficient. Dickey knows exactly what he is going for, and you can sense the authorial confidence. There are themes he wants to discuss, chief among them the search for reality, and he plays with those themes with all the subtlety you’d expect from such a /5. · - To the White Seaby James Dickey. To the White Sea by James Dickey. Houghton Mifflin, September First Edition. Hardcover. Bargain. Would % gift this book! It's in great used book condition, with only the barest of shelfwear on the edges. The Bluestocking Bookshop provides high-quality used and new books and gift items at deep discounts.
White Sea, a transcendent meditation on the savage and primal descent of one man facing desperate odds. James Dickey's new novel is at once brutal and lyrical, reaffirming his position as one of America's best and most important contemporary writers." "In a final sortie the day before the great fire-bombing raid on Tokyo in the last months of. In his third and latest novel, "To the White Sea," James Dickey tries to reverse the Nietzschean process and convert a civilized animal back into a beast of prey. Muldrow, Mr. Dickey's first-person-singular narrator, is the tail gunner of a B that goes on a bombing run over Tokyo in March To the White Sea. James Dickey. Wheeler, - Fiction - pages. 3 Reviews. 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.
In his third and latest novel, "To the White Sea," James Dickey tries to reverse the Nietzschean process and convert a civilized animal back into a beast of prey. Muldrow, Mr. Dickey's. TO THE WHITE SEA. by James Dickey ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, Dickey doesn't write many novels—three in 23 years—but he makes every one count. And when he's in peak form, as he is here, he makes every word count as well: In this unforgettable story of an American soldier escaping across WW II Japan—a story closer in spirit to Deliverance () than to Anilam ()—the prose of this year-old poet slices down to the bone of things like an immaculate knife. To the White Sea is compact and efficient. Dickey knows exactly what he is going for, and you can sense the authorial confidence. There are themes he wants to discuss, chief among them the search for reality, and he plays with those themes with all the subtlety you’d expect from such a blunt instrument as Muldrow.
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