The Boatmaker by John Benditt

The Boatmaker

John Benditt
453 pages
Tin House Books, 2015.
Mar 2015
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<p>Part fable, part allegory, The Boatmaker is the haunting and passionate story of a voyage of self-discovery.</p> 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.
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Pages 453
Publisher Tin House Books, 201...
Published 2015
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