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Loading... Delilah: A Novel about a U.S. Navy Destroyer and the Epic Struggles of Her Crew (original 1941; edition 2000)by Marcus Goodrich
Work InformationDelilah by Marcus Goodrich (1941)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 3624. Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich (read Sept 4,2002) This is a book I have long wanted to read. It is I think its author's only work, at least his only famous one, and was published in 1941. It is laid aboard a destroyer in the Philippines just before World War One, and reeks authenticity re naval life. I found this a great, great book, with the most exciting finale I have read since I read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor (Mar 17, 1997). no reviews | add a review
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The twentieth-century classic that inspired a generation of nautical novels. Delilah is an old four-piper destroyer whose regular beat is one of the world's most exotic - and dangerous - bodies of water: the Sulu Sea. Set at the beginning of the American century just before the Great War, this novel tells the story of how the ship and her crew patrol the islands in the time of violent racial and religious unrest. In a series of exquisitely drawn stories, Marcus Goodrich gives the reader a tantalizing glimpse into the heart of each crewmember as the ship puts down Philippine insurrections, searches for a gunrunner's cave told of only in island folklore, and delivers medicine to western missionaries who would rather see the medicine destroyed than have it distributed to non-Christians. What emerges is a sensuous tapestry of the sailors' lives, which are bound inextricably to the fate of their strange family on the Delilah. Here is the return of one of the twentieth century's most important and widely translated novels of the sea. No library descriptions found. |
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More about the ship Chauncey on which the story was based, a ship of which Goodrich was a survivor when it sank.
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