The Suns Gold
The Suns Gold
ISBN: 9780395184677
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内容简介
The Sun s Gold is a strongly atmospheric
novel, one that envelops you, sweeps
you into another world, turns you into
the eyes, ears, mind, and heart of the
protagonist.
He is an Arkansas mountain youth
who, after finding seashells atop the
mountains, hitches and walks 1800 miles
to ship aboard the merchant vessel
Ekonk. Known as "the Kid," he carries
only his sea bag and an Ishmael curiosity
to see the watery parts of the globe.
Once the Ekonk is under way, the Kid
finds mucb to learn -- about the ship,
the sea, and the men who have learned
"to walk the sea." His teachers are a
strange lot of hardened veterans: the
aged bosun, the wildly tattooed mate, the
drunken captain, and the various crew
members -- Red, Gus, Gene, Blackie, and
the mysterious "Satchel Man." Most are
pariahs, brutish and profane men who
regard shore leave as an interim in which
to get drunk, brawl, take a woman, then
return to the ship and be under way to
live the only life they know.
The Kid s odyssey aboard the Ekonk
begins as a youthful adventure but be-
comes a voyage to self-discovery. In a
distant and exotic
love, death, and the
port he discovers
awful truth of time
passing.
Written in prose deceptively quiet and
superbly controlled, salty yet lyric, The
Sun s Gold moves with the power of the
wind across the sea. It is a worthy addi-
tion to the shelf where the sea stories of
Joseph Conrad reside.