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1. Jan. 1993 · To the White Sea is told in the first person by an American airman named Muldrow. He is a tail-gunner on a B-29 Superfortress, and he knows he’ll soon lose his job when the firebombing starts, and they replace his weight with more destructive tonnage. As it is, though, he gets to go on the mission, which he relates in an inimitable style ...
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- Paperback
- James Dickey
22. Feb. 2020 · The Coen Brothers were set to make World War II drama To The White Sea in the early 2000s, and the cancelled project could have been another classic for the duo. The Coen Brothers made their directorial debut with 1984's Blood Simple, a noirish thriller with a pitch-black sense of humor. Their creative partnership would yield some of the best ...
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Of his three novels, To the White Sea is the truest to his experience. An American airforce gunner is blasted from the sky over Tokyo in the 1945 firestorms which seem end civilization. And he is glad of it. Left with only his army survival kit, his own knife and his upbringing as a hunter in the lower Arctic, the airman makes his way through the burning city under cover of chaos, and across ...
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He could just as easily have been describing To the White Sea, a transcendent meditation on the savage and primal descent of one man facing desperate odds. James Dickey's new novel is at once brutal and lyrical, reaffirming his position as one of America's best and most important contemporary writers. In a final sortie the day before the great ...
- James Dickey
- Houghton Mifflin, 1993
- the University of Michigan
- To the White SeaA Marc Jaffe book
1. Jan. 1993 · To the White Sea. Hardcover – January 1, 1993. The famed poet and author of Deliverance portrays a desperate tale of an American pilot shot down during the firebombing raid on Tokyo near the end World War II, whose escape becomes a violent journey of self-exploration. 75,000 first printing. Tour.
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To the White Sea. James Dickey. Wheeler, 1994 - Fiction - 313 pages. Award-winning and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic, ruined city, he instinctively travels ...
A number of themes — war, violence, nature, sacrifice, and boundaries — are woven together in the overriding theme of the book, Muldrow's quest. His trip from a sewer pipe in Tokyo to a blood-and-feathered last stand on Hokkaido constitutes not only the framework for the book but a major theme, as Muldrow, in a long tradition of heroes from Odysseus to Don Quixote, must overcome obstacles ...
