The Water in Between: A Journey at Sea - Hardcover

Patterson, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679309993 ISBN 13: 9780679309994

Publisher: Random House Canada, 1999

Synopsis

A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to Tahiti and back, to burn away his failings in hard miles at sea.

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Review:

"A first rate, quietly enthralling account othat belongs on the shelf with Theroux's Happy Isles of Oceania, Raban's sailings, and the work of landlubber Chatwin." Christopher Buckley, The New York Times Book Review

"[A]n old fashioned story of personal adventure that probes its own themes with subversive intelligence." The New York Times

"If a klutz like Patterson can sail to the South Seas, so can you. But writing about it this well is something else again." Outside

About the Author:

Kevin Patterson grew up in Selkirk, Manitoba, and put himself through medical school by enlisting in the Canadian Army. When his stint was up, he worked as a doctor in the Arctic and on the B.C. coast while studying for his MFA at UBC. His short fiction has been published in Descant and Canadian Fiction Magazine. He is currently a resident in internal medicine at Dalhousie in Halifax and a regular corres-pondent for Saturday Night magazine. The Sea Mouse is moored on Salt Spring Island.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Canada
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679309993
• ISBN 13: 9780679309994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304