A Mile Down
The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea
$25.54
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2014
Summary
“Work so that you can keep working. It seemed a proposition that could easily end in suicide. I wanted to escape this. I wanted to free myself from the working world and have time to write. And I wanted adventure. Grendel could never free me, but this boat could.”
David Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teaching creative writing workshops aboard a sailb…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922182081 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922182087 |
| Author: | David Vann |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 250g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm |
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Critics Review
‘David Vann has created a tale of hubris and endurance that is both exciting and beautifully written.’
‘David Vann has created a tale of hubris and endurance that is both exciting and beautifully written.’ – Keith Scribner
‘A Mile Down would be a cautionary tale for anyone who dreams of the freedom of the high seas—if only it wasn’t so damn exciting…’ – Stewart O’Nan, author of Songs for the Missing
‘At once memoir, confession, travel book and thriller, David Vann’s A Mile Down is so vivid and intense you will dread to see it end…The book is a testimony of passion and courage in deadly storms and scarier calms, of a man wrestling with his ghosts and gifts in the very shadow of paradise.’ – Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek
‘A fast-moving story of endurance.’ * NZ Listener *
‘A Mile Down is a gripping story and an incredibly candid character exploration. And Vann writes so well that even the technical details are a joy to read.’ * Bookmunch *
‘Rarely has a memoir combined such raw self-exposure with such ultimately consoling insight.’ * New Statesman *
About The Author
David Vann
David Vann is an internationally bestselling author published in nineteen languages. He is the winner of fifteen prizes and his books have appeared on seventy Best Books lists in a dozen countries. He is a professor at the University of Warwick in England and lives in New Zealand half of the year.
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