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Ship of Fools
Ship of Fools
Author: Katherine Anne Porter
Ship of Fools chronicles the voyage of a shipload of passengers to the coomed Germany of 1931. Lovers, widows and widowers, husbands and wives, children born and bred in evil, are revealed with terrifying intimacy.
ISBN: 173809
Publication Date: 1963
Pages: 476
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Publisher: Signet
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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This long-awaited novel by Katherine Anne Porter is destined to take a permanent place in the literature of our time. Over a period of many years Miss Porter has devoted her crative energy and great gifts as a storyteller to this major work, weaving its many strands into a rich, varicolored fabric. It is a novel on the grand scale, and its endless variety of scenes and characters is the variety of life itself. Comedy and tragedy, love and death, boredom and adventure, pain and pleasure-all are witnessed in the lives and actions of the ship's company of the German freighter-passenger ship Vera embarked from Veracruz, Mexico, and destined for Bremerhaven, Germany. The story covers a period of twenty-seven days in the year 1931.


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