Two Guys Read "Moby-Dick" (Paperback)
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Beskrivelser af Two Guys Read "Moby-Dick"

Forlagets beskrivelse

Presents a series of letters and e-mails, written by the authors', chronicling their experience and encouraging each other's progress in reading the novel, "Moby-Dick".

Bibliotekernes beskrivelse

In 1960, two high school friends were assigned to read the Herman Melville novel "Moby-Dick". Neither one of them read it. Four decades later, plagued by feelings of guilt at never having read 'The Great American Novel', the two friends grab for belated gusto. Over the six months of their reading odyssey, the authors wrote a series of letters and e-mails chronicling their experience and encouraging each other's progress.This body of correspondence is now a book. Actually, the reading of "Moby-Dick" is just a platform. And while it is the primary substance of the book, the writers do not worry themselves much about staying within subject matter boundaries. The letters also touch on: their fifty-year friendship, growing old, Alex Rodriguez, the War in Iraq, Bob Dylan, speculation on the chances of getting sick in Mexico, the true story of how Hemingway got to Sweden, the cause of nightmares, Bebe Rebozo, Vladimir Nabokov, redemption and death. This book will have you laughing from start to finish, and pondering life's many mysteries, of course!