The captain and the glory
Eggers, Dave2019
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The grand ship Glory has been skilfully captained for years, but when its well-loved old skipper decides to step down, a new leader thrusts himself forward and a new era begins. The new Captain is vulgar, bumbling and inexplicably confident. With no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law - nor even, as he has repeatedly remarked, a particular liking for boats - he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain enthralls his passengers: writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria whiteboard, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing anyone who dissatisfies him overboard. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looks without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon.
Main title:
The captain and the glory / Dave Eggers.
Author:
Eggers, Dave, author
Imprint:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
Collation:
128 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780241445952 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.6
Language:
English
BRN:
272669
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