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02.26: John Benditt
2015-01-16 00:05:23| Powells Books Events Calendar
A fierce and complicated man wakes from a fever dream compelled to build a boat and sail away from the isolated island where he was born. Encountering the wider world for the first time, the reluctant hero falls into a destructive love affair, is swept up into a fanatical religious movement, and finds himself a witness to racial hatred unlike anything he's ever known. The boatmaker is tempted, beaten, and betrayed: his journey marked by chilling episodes of violence and horror while he struggles to summon the strength to make his own way. John Benditt's The Boatmaker (Tin House) is a fable for our times, a passionate love story, and an odyssey of self-discovery.
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