Description
| Product ID: | 9780008647469 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Quint |
| Authors: | Author: Robert Lautner |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | War, combat and military adventure fiction, War & combat fiction, Historical fiction, Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, Fiction: special features |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'Uncannily brilliant… a book to be swallowed whole' EVIE WYLD ‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMES Before there was Jaws, there was… QUINT ''Uncannily brilliant… a book to be swallowed whole'' EVIE WYLD‘Excellent… a profound portrait of a life dislocated by war and violence’ THE TIMESBefore there was Jaws, there was… QUINTFifteen years since I landed on Amity, an island full of rich folks adrift between the Hamptons and Montauk.Got a business and a boat, got me a truck with my name and a pretty shark scratched on the door. Carved it myself. Bad job.I got ghosts around me, lot of ghosts. Gotta put ‘em somewhere. Can’t drink ‘em all. Ain’t here for company, and I only got two stories for telling company anyways. Thinking if I get them stories down, on paper mind, then that’s just between me and the ink.You already know the end of his story: now find out where it all began. So much more than a fisherman, Quint is a survivor, a fighter, a man who has left three wives in his wake.From his time as a young sailor facing the horrors of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, to a deadly night-long showdown with a frenzy of sharks years later, before he finally settles on the island of Amity: this extraordinary act of literary ventriloquism is a vivid and utterly compelling reimagining of the life of a truly iconic character – from the acclaimed author of THE DRAUGHTSMAN and THE ROAD TO RECKONING. |
| Imprint Name: | The Borough Press |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2024-02-01 |
