Delilah (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Marcus Goodrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0259511587 ISBN 13: 9780259511588

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Delilah

Down the narrow convexity of the main deck - it really was like the back of a thin whale - stretched in single file the external structures indispensable to Delilah's purposes and func tions. F irst came the short, formidable, stream-lined Smoke stack Number One, leaning backward toward the stern as if unable to meet upright the strain of Delilah's herce, forward leaps. Back of the stack, side by side, came the two capacious nostrils of the big blowers that sucked a heavy pressure of air down into the Forward F ire-room. Between these was the air-tight little hatch that provided the only access to this fire room. N ext came Smokestack N umber Two, precisely similar to the first and succeeding stacks, and after that the rectangular hatch of the Starboard Engine-room, echeloned to port of which was the hatch of the Port Engine-room. It was not mere coincidence that Lieutenant Fitzpatrick was sending his longing glances staggering up towards the fresh, blue mirage framed in the Starboard Engine - room Hatchway, while Ensign Snell was glancing up as desirously at that framed in the Port; for as Fitzpatrick was senior to, and took precedence over Snell, so the starboard engine took precedence over, and set the pace for the port engine.

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From the Back Cover:

Delilah is an old four-piper destroyer whose regular beat is one of the world's most exotic - and dangerous - bodies of water: the Sulu Sea. Set at the beginning of the American century just before the Great War, the ship patrols the violent racial and religious tensions that threaten to break America's tenuous grasp on the Philippines, and on its identify as colonial power. In a series of exquisitely-drawn stories, Marcus Goodrich reveals tantalizing glimpses of the heart of each sailor as the crew puts down Philippine insurrections, searches for a gunrunner's cave told of only in island folklore, and delivers medicine to western missionaries.Here is the return of one of the twentieth century's most important and widely translated novels of the sea. It is a boon for lovers of sea yarns and a must-read for any serious student of American literature. (5 3/4 X 9, 526 pages)

About the Author:

Marcus Goodrich was a commissioned U.S. Navy officer during both world wats, wrote for many New York newspapers, and served as a correspondent for Time magazine. While writing for the Sunday edition of the New York Times in Paris, he became known as a bon vivant and storyteller within the Hemingway crowd. With the publication of Delilah, he instantly became a celebrity and met his future wife, Olivia de Havilland, while writing screenplays for the major film companies. He retired to Richmond, Virginia, and died in 1991. James Michener is the prolific author of such classics as Hawaii, Caribbean, and Texas. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for Tales of the South Pacific. Edward L. Beach is the author of Salt and Steel and Run Silent, Run Deep, which was made into a motion picture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0259511587
• ISBN 13: 9780259511588
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 506