To The White Sea: James Dickey novel. HB/DJ FINE/FINE

Description: To The White Sea By James Dickey A Marc Jaffe Book, Houghton Mifflin Company Boston, Massachusetts May 1993 Dust jacket adds: A Novel by the author of Deliverance Portions of this book previously appeared in Playboy, Partisan Review and South Carolina Review [10], 275 p.; 23.5 cm. (9.25 inches). Black cloth spine with gilt-stamped spine title, grey paper over boards. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket designed by Michaela Sullivan. Red endpapers. First Edition, Second Printing "When James Dickey's best-selling novel, Deliverance, appeared in 1970 Robert Stone wrote in Time Magazine, 'Dickey finds and renders a quality of terror in the struggle of human against human sufficient to chill the most complacent heart.' 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 novel is at once brutal and lyrical, reaffirming his position as one of America's best and most important contemporary writers. In a final sortie the day before the great fire-bombing raid on Tokyo in the last months of World War II, Muldrow, an American tail gunner, parachutes from his burning B-29 into the city. Protected at first by the smoke-blackened anarchy on the ground, he relentlessly treks north, away from the chaos and ruin of Tokyo, instinctively driven toward the island of Hokkaido, a frozen, desolate sanctuary he is certain will assure his survival - and freedom. With little more than a knife and a small map of Japan he makes his way across enemy terrain, alert to both danger and opportunity. But with every step and every breath his journey transforms into the flight of a pure predator. Haunting images consume his imagination as he stalks through a dark world where every passing moment of his violent odyssey brings him closer to a harrowing climax that is pure James Dickey in its fearsome conception . To the White Sea is a gripping adventure narrative that melds exacting, breakneck prose and true poetic imagination in the creation of an portrait, painted with the fierce and vivid reality of an unforgettable nightmare" [from the dust jacket]. ISBN: 0395475651 Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust Jacket is in Fine/As New Condition. Copyright 2019 All text in this auction description is the sole property of Classic Books and Ephemera and may not be copied without permission from Classic Books and Ephemera. We email all winning bidders within 24 hours of the end of auction. Occasionally a server will block emails with unfamiliar addresses, which has prevented us from notifying a few winning bidders. If you do not hear from us, please email us for payment details. SHIPPING and HANDLING: The winning bidder receives free media mail in the U.S. We ship all books in boxes, well protected, within 24 hours of the order (Monday - Saturday), always with tracking. We ship pamphlets, documents, broadsides, and booklets in rigid mailers, bagged and boarded, with added stiffener for protection, always with tracking We have been selling books and ephemera for about 17 years to satisfied customers on various venues, so buy with confidence. For international shipping costs see Ebay's Shipping and Handling section below (click on the country and then click Update for cost to a specific country). For expedited domestic or international shipping prices, please contact us. WINNERS AND BUYERS OF MULTIPLE ITEMS RECEIVE FREE SHIPPING IN THE U.S., FIRST CLASS UP TO 16 OUNCES, MEDIA MAIL OVER 16 OUNCES. Payment Methods: Ebay has recently decreed that sellers on the site can only accept electronic payments through Paypal; no other form of payment is permitted except upon request. Before paying for multiple items, please wait for our email notification of your winning bids, so we can provide a combined shipping total. Pa. residents: you must add 6% sales tax to the total (including shipping and handling), unless you have a resale number. This is Pa. state law. Guarantee: We guarantee that the book is as described or we will return the buyer's money, if we are notified by email within 24 hours of receipt of the book. ALSO SEE ON EBAY OUR FINE SELECTION OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND EPHEMERA IN OUR STORE, CLASSIC BOOKS AND EPHEMERA; CLICK ON THIS LINK: We use the condition terms established by AB Bookman's Weekly and now slightly refined by IOBA: As New/Fine, Near Fine(minor defects), Very Good (small signs of wear), Good (average used book), Fair (complete text, but may lack endpapers, half-title), Poor (complete text but soiled, loose hinges, etc.) For an explanation of terms commonly used in book descriptions, contact us

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