The Boatmaker

By John Benditt

Book Overview

A fierce and complicated man wakes from a fever dream compelled to build a boat and sail away from the isolated island where he was born. Encountering the wider world for the first time, the reluctant hero falls into a destructive love affair, is swept up into a fanatical religious movement, and finds himself a witness to racial hatred unlike anything he's ever known. The boatmaker is tempted, beaten, and betrayed: his journey marked by chilling episodes of violence and horror while he struggles to summon the strength to make his own way. The Boatmaker is a fable for our times, a passionate love story, and an odyssey of self-discovery.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935639986
• ISBN13: 9781935639985
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Tin House Books
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.2" x 7.9"