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Log of the S.S. the Mrs Unguentine
"A captivating short work almost beyond description." The New Yorker
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: Sep 1st, 2008
- Pages: 113
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.40in - 0.40in - 0.35lb
- EAN: 9781564785121
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Marcus, Ben: - Ben Marcus is a surfer and skateboarder for life. He was Surfer magazine associate editor and still writes for Surfer, The Surfer's Journal, and others. He's the author of our The Surfboard, Surfing USA!, Surfing & the Meaning of Life, and The Surfer's Handbook. He lives in Malibu, of course. www.benmarcusrules.com
Praise for this book
"No one captures the mind of a control freak like Stanley Crawford." -- Ed Park
"Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a captivating short work almost beyond description." -- Verlyn Klinkenborg
"I'll tell you a book I want to teach. Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine by Stanley Crawford. It's out of print. How can a book like that be out of print? If I wrote that book and it went out of print, I just don't know what I would do. I'd have to call the police, I think." -- Deb Olin Unferth
No one captures the mind of a control freak like Stanley Crawford.
While Crawford's novel brings to mind the great literature of the sea (Moby-Dick, Mutiny on the Bounty, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"), he doesn't allude to it; he doesn't have to. Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine the book's most inelegant passage is its title is a brave and audacious novel whose style, structure, story and language come together like strands of hemp spliced into an intricate knot.
Like that second the in its title, Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine is a stubborn creation that demands attention, and that odd surname is right on the money: This formally seamless book stings and soothes, like the most potent ointment, applied to literature too content to play it far too safe.
"A captivating short work almost beyond description."-"The New Yorker"