![]() The novel is sometimes charmingly, sometimes horrifying rambling. what makes the novel great is verite behind it - the person who told this story clearly lived in the world he attempted to fictionalize. three different characters in this novel are 6'5" bear-like men, as hayden was, who loved the sea. he wrote an autobiography entitled Wanderer which i am more eager to read after reading this novel that so obviously followed hemingway's write-what-you-know dictum. a quick read of his wikipedia page informs us that he stood 6 feet 5 inches tall, and that among his many pursuits he was a film actor in such films as, "The Asphalt Jungle", "Johnny Guitar" and Robert Altman's version of "The Long Goodbye" co-starring opposite elliot gould- and then a soldier and spy in WWII and foremost, a "sailor man", the calling he felt most strongly. Sterling hayden, the man who wrote this book, was a man of many stripes.
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