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The total Disaster Novel, devoted entirely to the seventeen minutes in which a British cargo ship strikes a phantom object during a gale and sinks in the icy North Seas. The form is familiar (John Hersey's Hiroshima out of a day in the life of Leopold Bloom) and Callison has no new bells to ring - but the suspense-horror is bloody tight, Sailors left and right are crushed or cooked, blown about by compressed air, enact heroic rescues, find themselves locked into closed rooms or cages, achieve moral victories, or simply try to save their pet parrot or dog. One Chinese sleeps through the entire sinking while enjoying a wet dream. Callison has hit upon a lively device that helps him avoid the dull spots that marred Trapp's War (1976), but this is strictly genre stuff. (Kirkus Reviews)
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A Ship Is Dying (LARGE PRINT EDITION).
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Magna Books, Long Preston, Yorkshire England
(1981)
ISBN 10: 0860093441
ISBN 13: 9780860093442
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Book Description Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. First Thus. Minor edge and corner wear; lightly scuffed and scratched; spine is gently creased; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used LARGE PRNT edition! Full-color illustrated wrapper with yellow and white lettering. 387 historical and adventure-filled pages! "Brian Callison vividly portrays these seventeen minutes of catastrophe so that the reader lives through every instant as Lycomedes is torn to pieces beneath his feet. We meet Skinner the Bosun, Eddie Ferguson the Officer's Steward, Barraclough the Chief Engineer, for only a tiny portion of their mortal lives; yet under the stresses of disaster we grow to know them intimately, to understand them, and to feel for them in their peril. A Ship is Dying is as stirring, as overwhelming a sea-story as ever Brian Callison has written." (LARGE PRINT EDITION). Seller Inventory # 048033
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Well read copy with some spine wear - still very useable. Quick dispatch from UK seller. Seller Inventory # mon0000118788
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