Two guys read Moby-Dick : musings on Melville´s whale and other strange topics
Chandler, Steve , 1944-
Two guys read Moby-Dick : musings on Melville´s whale and other strange topics / Steve Chandler & Terrence N. Hill. - Bandon, OR : Robert D. Reed Publishers , c2006. - vi, 120 p. ; 23 cm. - Two guys read . - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors. Both authors are San Miguel de Allende authors.
In 1960, two high school friends were assigned to read the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick. Neither one of them read it. Four decades later, plagued by feelings of guilt at never having read "The Great American Novel," the two friends grab for belated gusto. Over the six months of their reading odyssey, the authors wrote a series of letters and e-mails chronicling their experience and encouraging each other's progress. This body of correspondence is now a book. Actually, the reading of Moby-Dick is just a platform. And while it is the primary substance of the book, the writers do not worry themselves much about staying within subject matter boundaries. The letters also touch on: their fifty-year friendship, growing old, Alex Rodriguez, the War in Iraq, Bob Dylan, speculation on the chances of getting sick in Mexico, the true story of how Hemingway got to Sweden, the cause of nightmares, Bebe Rebozo, Vladimir Nabokov, redemption and death.
9781931741637
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891----Moby Dick
Novelists, American----Criticism and interpretation----19th century
Psychological fiction
813.3 CHA
Two guys read Moby-Dick : musings on Melville´s whale and other strange topics / Steve Chandler & Terrence N. Hill. - Bandon, OR : Robert D. Reed Publishers , c2006. - vi, 120 p. ; 23 cm. - Two guys read . - San Miguel de Allende (Mexico)--Author .
Located in Gloria Grant Room - special collection of San Miguel de Allende authors. Both authors are San Miguel de Allende authors.
In 1960, two high school friends were assigned to read the Herman Melville novel Moby-Dick. Neither one of them read it. Four decades later, plagued by feelings of guilt at never having read "The Great American Novel," the two friends grab for belated gusto. Over the six months of their reading odyssey, the authors wrote a series of letters and e-mails chronicling their experience and encouraging each other's progress. This body of correspondence is now a book. Actually, the reading of Moby-Dick is just a platform. And while it is the primary substance of the book, the writers do not worry themselves much about staying within subject matter boundaries. The letters also touch on: their fifty-year friendship, growing old, Alex Rodriguez, the War in Iraq, Bob Dylan, speculation on the chances of getting sick in Mexico, the true story of how Hemingway got to Sweden, the cause of nightmares, Bebe Rebozo, Vladimir Nabokov, redemption and death.
9781931741637
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891----Moby Dick
Novelists, American----Criticism and interpretation----19th century
Psychological fiction
813.3 CHA
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