Ship of Fools

Name: Ship of Fools
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN: 9780316713900

Katherine Anne Porter

30/05/1984
Back Bay Books

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Ship of Fools par Katherine Anne Porter

Résumé

The classic bestseller from the Pulitzer Prize winner dramatizes the rise of totalitarianism in the 1930s in a sweeping story of a transatlantic cruise featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, The story takes place in the summer of 1931, on board a cruise ship bound for Germany. Passengers include a Spanish noblewoman, a drunken German lawyer, an American divorcee, a pair of Mexican Catholic priests. This ship of fools is a crucible of intense experience, out of which everyone emerges forever changed. Rich in incident, passion, and treachery, the novel explores themes of nationalism, cultural and ethnic pride, and basic human frailty that are as relevant today as they were when the book was first published in 1962.