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Jones, Ben, 1968-
Subjects
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.
Military deserters -- Fiction.
Whaling ships -- Fiction.
Whaling -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
New England -- Fiction.
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Jones, Ben, 1968-
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.
Military deserters -- Fiction.
Whaling ships -- Fiction.
Whaling -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
New England -- Fiction.
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The
rope
eater
: a
novel
/ Ben Jones.
by
Jones, Ben, 1968-
Doubleday, c2003.
Call #:
FICTION JON
Subjects
Shipwreck survival -- Fiction.
Military deserters -- Fiction.
Whaling ships -- Fiction.
Whaling -- Fiction.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Fiction.
New England -- Fiction.
ISBN:
0385509774
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860s New England, kept awake at nights by a furiously beating heart. Fired by a speech given by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause—and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts after one particularly bloody battle, drifting north to experience the draft riots in New York and, finally, to meet his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town. He signs up as a crew member without any inkling of the voyage's destination or goals, joining a crew of odd outcasts not unlike that of the Pequod—including one Aziz, the three-handed Muslim engine tender, and Dr. Archeiteuthis, the ship's scientist whose mania for data becomes increasingly indistinguishable from madness. While at sea, they come to learn that their goal is a mythic temperate valley, a paradise in the heart of the Arctic—a goal their captain and the Narthex's owner will stop at nothing to reach. The ship is eventually smashed, and crew members starve, freeze to death, go blind or even insane as Kane desperately attempts to survive."--Inside jacket.
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Historical fiction.
War fiction
Sea stories.
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