Quint - Robert Lautner
Robert Lautner
- Pages · 288 pages
- Publication Date · 16/01/2025
- Genre · Historical fiction
`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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