Quint [electronic resource]
Lautner, Robert2024
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'Puts some of the balls back into serious English fiction' GILES COREN, THE TIMES 'Whisky-soaked, guttural, stinking and funny' EVIE WYLD, OBSERVER 'Thrilling, brutal, poetic, literary and irresistible, one of the 21st century's first great 20th-century American novels' LOUISA YOUNG Before there was Jaws, there was... QUINT You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. Quint: the taciturn and grizzled sea captain who survived the shark-ridden sinking of the USS Indianapolis, only to meet his maker in the maw of a Great White at the end of JAWS. So much more than a fisherman – a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake. In this vivid and utterly compelling masterpiece, Robert Lautner reimagines the life of a truly iconic character. 'Excellent... a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence' THE TIMES, Best Summer Reads 'If Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was doused in whiskey and strained through the gills of a tiger shark, it would not sound dissimilar... one of this year's literary miracles' IRISH INDEPENDENT
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Quint [electronic resource] / Robert Lautner
Author:
Lautner, Robert, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2024
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
ROBERT LAUTNER was born in Middlesex in 1970. Before becoming a writer he owned his own comic-book store, worked as a wine merchant, photographic consultant and recruitment consultant. He now lives on the Pembrokeshire coast in a wooden cabin with his wife and children. He is the author of The Road to Reckoning, which was a Simon Mayo Book Club choice, and The Draughtsman, which was longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Quint is his third novel.
ISBN:
9780008647483
Language:
English
BRN:
2895708
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