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Far Tortuga
Peter Matthiessen · 1988 · 408 pages
An adventure story and a deeply considered meditation upon the sea itself.
"Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
"Beautiful and original...a resonant and symbolical story of nine doomed men who dream of an earthly paradise as the world winds down around them." —Newsweek
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T.C. Boyle
“One of the most astonishing re-creations of nature in our literature. A boat in the Caribbean. Turtles. The patois of the crew that becomes a kind of poetry lived in the moment. And the violence at the heart of it that seems as natural as pegging a leatherback out in the sun. This is a book so powerful it makes me weep.”↗