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1 de ene. de 1993 · To the White Sea contains one of the most uncompromising narratives and most unilaterally driven protagonists every committed to paper. Muldrow, a WWII gunner, shot down over Tokyo, does whatever is necessary to survive; he is a man apart, thrown into a foreign land, with a different language, culture, and ideology.
1 de sept. de 1994 · To the White Sea. Paperback – September 1, 1994. Award-winning and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic, ruined city, he instinctively travels north toward a frozen ...
1 de sept. de 1993 · Dickey doesn't write many novels—three in 23 years—but he makes every one count. And when he's in peak form, as he is here, he makes every word count as well: In this unforgettable story of an American soldier escaping across WW II Japan—a story closer in spirit to Deliverance (1970) than to Anilam (1987)—the prose of this 70-year-old poet slices down to the bone of things like an ...
After one semester, he left school to enlist in the military. During World War II, Dickey served with the U.S. Army Air Forces, where he flew thirty-eight missions in the Pacific Theater as a P-61 Black Widow radar operator with the 418th Night Fighter Squadron, an experience that influenced his work, and for which he was awarded five Bronze Stars.
He could just as easily have been describing To the White Sea, a transcendent meditation on the savage and primal descent of one man facing desperate odds. James Dickey's new novel is at once brutal and lyrical, reaffirming his position as one of America's best and most important contemporary writers.
To the White Sea. James Dickey. Wheeler, 1994 - Fiction - 313 pages. Award-winning and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic, ruined city, he instinctively travels ...
In his third and latest novel, "To the White Sea," James Dickey tries to reverse the Nietzschean process and convert a civilized animal back into a beast of prey. Muldrow, Mr. Dickey's first-person-singular narrator, is the tail gunner of a B-29 that goes on a bombing run over Tokyo in March 1945. Predictably enough, Muldrow's plane is shot ...
