To the White Sea - Hardcover

Dickey, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395475651 ISBN 13: 9780395475652

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1993

Synopsis

The famed poet and author of Deliverance portrays a desperate tale of an American pilot shot down during the firebombing raid on Tokyo near the end World War II, whose escape becomes a violent journey of self-exploration. 75,000 first printing. Tour.

About this title

From the Publisher:

"The book's closest forebear may be Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea... an exhilarating ride."--The New Yorker

From the Inside Flap:

g and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes  from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic,  ruined city, he instinctively travels north toward a frozen, desolate sanctuary he is certain will assure this survival--and freedom. Making his way through enemy terrain, on the lookout for both danger and  opportunity, Muldrow's journey becomes the flight of a pure predator. Moving through the darkness,  bombarded by haunting visions that consume his  imagination, every step in his violent odyssey brings  him closer to a harrowing climax that is pure  James Dickey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0395475651
• ISBN 13: 9780395475652
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 275