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Jan 1, 1993 · To the White Sea contains one of the most uncompromising narratives and most unilaterally driven protagonists every committed to paper. Muldrow, a WWII gunner, shot down over Tokyo, does whatever is necessary to survive; he is a man apart, thrown into a foreign land, with a different language, culture, and ideology.
Sep 1, 1993 · And when Willem becomes a movie star, they all bask in his glow. Eventually, the tone darkens and the story narrows to focus on Jude as the pain of his past cuts deep into his carefully constructed life. The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel. 66. Pub Date: March 10, 2015.
Sep 1, 1994 · To the White Sea. Paperback – September 1, 1994. Award-winning and best-selling author James Dickey returns with the heart-stopping story of Muldrow, an American tail gunner who parachutes from his burning airplane into Tokyo in the final months of World War II. Fleeing the chaotic, ruined city, he instinctively travels north toward a frozen ...
Feb 12, 1994 · To The White Sea is, if anything, even more violent in its setting and action, demanding of its hero extremes of ruthlessness and cunning the likes of which would make even Bruce Willis blanch.
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.
James Dickey. James Lafayette Dickey (February 2, 1923 – January 19, 1997) was an American poet and novelist. [3] He was appointed the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate in 1966. [5] He also received the Order of the South award. Dickey is best known for his novel Deliverance (1970), which was adapted into the acclaimed 1972 film of the ...
A number of themes — war, violence, nature, sacrifice, and boundaries — are woven together in the overriding theme of the book, Muldrow's quest. His trip from a sewer pipe in Tokyo to a blood-and-feathered last stand on Hokkaido constitutes not only the framework for the book but a major theme, as Muldrow, in a long tradition of heroes from Odysseus to Don Quixote, must overcome obstacles ...
