By the award-winning author of "The Ice at the Bottom of the World", this is the story of a young boy who believes he has committed a murder. In an attempt to expiate his guilt, he stows away on a trawler only to discover that it is crewed by criminals and freaks.
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Mark Richard was born in Louisiana. He left university in his third year to work on ocean-going trawlers and fishing boats for three years, before returning to study journalism. His first collection of stories, ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD, received the 1990 PEN/Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award.
In the brilliant idiom of a modern Melville or Conrad, an odyssey of discovery by a bold and outrageous talent--the PEN/Hemingway Award--winning author of "The Ice At The Bottom Of The World.
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