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Martin and Jack plan to escape deadend jobs by hustling the money to finance a yachting business in Hawaii, but encounter unforeseen consequences
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Adrift somewhere amidst this seemingly horizonless ocean of alcohol, drugs and unwashed sex is a minor adventure about two alcoholic losers who scheme to get rich in tourist-glutted Hawaii. Narrator Martin and self-styled sailor Jack con a high-rolling, cocaine-addicted San Francisco brain surgeon into buying Whirlaway, a 52-foot racing yacht, and joining them in a yacht-chartering operation that takes them throughout the Hawaiian islands. Impaired by a herky-jerky prose style that he apparently intends to pass for hip, first-novelist Wintner (Snorkel Bob's Reality Guide to Hawaii) fails to evoke any real sense of the territory; moreover, his pages are overpopulated with airhead females whose main mission in life seems to be to relieve the potentially debilitating sexual tensions of an ill-assorted cast of perverted male wharf rats. Vivid passages depicting harrowing open-sea crossings help matters somewhat, as do some interesting, albeit overdetailed, descriptions of arduous boat repairs-but not even the dead-on cameos of mainsider "normals" can offset the heroes' vacuous musings about cosmic meaning and their apparently unquenchable yearning for the sleaziest that money can buy. Author tour.
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Tucson, AZ: Smallwood, 1994, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A., 1994
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Edward R Smallwood Inc, 1994. Type: Hardback First Printing. Hardcover Book in Near Fine Condition with a Very Good Dust Jacket. The tale of two men who wouldn't grow up, knew they were meant for something better than dead-end jobs, and broken dreams--so, they went for broke! Off to Hawaii they go in their sailing yacht, and their adventures begin. Binding of blue half cloth, gilt titled, with bright blue boards, very clean; just a touch of wear to lower front corner. Tight and solid volume. Blue endpapers. Rough cut. Internals Fine--very clean and completely unmarked. 280 pages. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 1994, Edward R Smallwood Inc, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A. Seller Inventory # 026598
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