The Yellow Sailor

by Steve Weiner

Book Overview

This extraordinary novel, moodily operatic in tone and by turns hallucinatory and brilliantly detailed, follows the trajectories of four sailors and the owner of a German merchant ship, Yellow Sailor, which sets sail from Bremen in 1914. After the ship wrecks in shallow water, the men drift their separate ways, with each man's journey across a desolate wartime European landscape becoming an exploration of the failure of love, sex, religion, and friendship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158567169X
• ISBN13: 9781585671694
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"