Guest Boy: 1 (Light Piercing Water) - Softcover

Marbrook, Djelloul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908509066 ISBN 13: 9781908509062

Publisher: Mira Publishing House, 2012

Synopsis

Guest Boy: Bo Cavalieri, a merchant seaman with a DaVinci-like gift for drawing, witnesses a tragedy in Hamburg involving Bo’s friend and chief mate Gunderson and the pair he sketches every night, a barmaid and her Moroccan “guest boy” lover. A misunderstanding trigger’s the boy’s suicide. Bo quits his ship and takes the boy’s body back to his Moroccan village. Then he signs on as master of a British ship heading for the Omani coast to search for alchemical artifacts. The book ends in Manhattan, where Bo’s world turns strange and he becomes the guest boy.

About this title

About the Author

Djelloul Marbrook is a prize-winning poet. He was born in 1934 in Algiers to a Bedouin father and an American painter. He grew up in Brooklyn, West Islip and Manhattan, New York, where he graduated from Dwight School and attended Columbia. He then served in the U.S. Navy and went on to a career as a newspaper reporter and editor. His first poetry collection, Far From Algiers (2008, Kent State University Press), won the 2007 Stan and Tom Wick Prize and the 2010 International Book Award in poetry. His second poetry book, Brushstrokes and Glances (2011, Deerbrook Editions, 2011) also won critical acclaim. His books of fiction include Saraceno (2012, Bliss Plot Press), Artemisia s Wolf (2011, Prakash Books Ltd.), and Alice Miller s Room (1999, Online Originals).

Edition details

• Publisher: Mira Publishing House
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908509066
• ISBN 13: 9781908509062
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250